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
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
He was told that Mr. Levey had received a cablegram from Mrs. Bartholomew saying she was traveling "incognito."
From Time Magazine Archive
About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel.
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
