telegraph
Example Sentences
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The strike took place in a now-forgotten farming village, at which Garza’s archival research revealed through telegraph conversations that activist-turned-influential Mexican novelist José Revueltas had in fact been present.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
The most powerful solar storm ever recorded was the Carrington Event in 1859, which knocked out telegraph lines across the globe.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025
The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
Horse-mounted couriers and telegraph wires were alive all day with instructions to troops to enlist the help of fishermen and others on the river to capture the fugitives.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
