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
It took ex-Theater Critic Brooks Atkinson six months and a personal cablegram to Joseph Stalin to get accredited to Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
None of the words of my wife's cablegram sound at all like her.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
