telegram
Example Sentences
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"The telegram boy said, 'I'm sorry to tell you, but this is bad news'," he says.
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A telegram from King George VI was read aloud:
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A telegram in the same files shows a doctor from Cornwall, who was treating a 10-year-old child in 1944, pleading with the authorities for the medicine: "No hope without penicillin".
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On 13 March, "Artem" sent a telegram message from a military hospital, where he was being treated for shrapnel wounds suffered in a drone attack.
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Other lots included telegrams from the late Duke of Edinburgh and letters from Margaret Thatcher and fellow comics Ronnie Barker and Tommy Cooper.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
