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typewrite

[tahyp-rahyt] / ˈtaɪpˌraɪt /




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It sounds like what a dude with a drawl would say if you asked for the past tense of "typewrite."

From Golf Digest Jun. 12, 2017

Supposedly those symbols sum up greatness with an economy and precision which would surely elude an army of sportswriters hitting random keys on a typewrite for an infinite amount of time.

From The Guardian Aug. 17, 2010

Mrs. Stoner attributes the .brilliance of her daughter in no small part to the fact that she taught the child to typewrite at the age of three.

From Time Magazine Archive

He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite.

From Time Magazine Archive

He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

He typewrites a letter, forges the signature of the erstwhile Count, and awaits events.

From The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

The other way was as absurd as the four-year-old prodigy who typewrites and is rather fond of Greek.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

Writes some sort of stuff which the girl with him typewrites.

From The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Merton, you’ll want a typewriter for your business correspondence, and Miss Blossom typewrites: it is her profession.’

From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

"Well no—I hardly think—you see he typewrites his letters, and although I know his writing very well I can't at the moment put my hand on any figures of his."

From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison

And G. G. went back to his rooms in great glee and typewrote a story that he had finished as well as he could, and sent it to a magazine.

From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

She typewrote "literature" telling how there was a chance for every man out there, how the big, exhaustless land was eager to yield of its store to all who would come and seek.

From Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell

Ollie gradually typewrote herself to sleep and Prue was not home.

From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes

She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Dunthorne had access to the German original, about 1,800 typewritten pages, as well as to a translated, abridged version distributed to family members.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2025

The lyrics on two yellow sheets of paper are three typewritten drafts of the song - but not the final version.

From BBC Jan. 19, 2025

The quantity of typewritten evidence presented at the trials—200,000 affidavits and sworn depositions of over 360 live witnesses, according to the last living signal-corps typist—all needed to be translated into English, French, Russian, and German.

From Slate Mar. 16, 2024

“It’s a forgery, and not a very clever one. The thing is typewritten, and there’s no signature or date. That doesn’t seem quite legitimate, does it?”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

She saved only one, with typewriting on the envelope.

From Salon Jun. 16, 2022

The 35-year-old has invited Hanks to visit his shop, Typewronger Books, while the National Museum of Scotland's typewriting exhibition is on show.

From BBC Oct. 26, 2021

“Thank you … for keeping the sound and fury of typewriting available to all.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 8, 2021

It was recognized as the most advanced typewriting machine yet, and won first prize and a gold medal.

From Scientific American Feb. 21, 2014

For a moment I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on the table.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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