cablegram
Example Sentences
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Moves are communicated over long distances — in less technologically savvy times often by handwritten mail or cablegram — and each player has days to make a move.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2012
The raising and negotiation of this problem cannot be made only by cablegram, and it is better that a delegation should be sent to Cuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly came a cablegram, signed by Johan's oldest son, Jan: how soon could Smit's Manhattan office get and ship 500 diamond-cutting saws to London?
From Time Magazine Archive
On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
