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

But chance and another cablegram offer the two lovers a second opportunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thoroughly annoyed by Mr. Britten, the State Department would have liked to discourage Premier Baldwin from doing more than acknowledge the receipt of the Britten cablegram.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis.

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