oral message
Example Sentences
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On May 7, 1982, Begin sent us an oral message warning that it might well become "imperative and inevitable" to remove the threat.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the oral message, Nixon pointedly avoided presenting a shopping list of election-year proposals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next morning he received an oral message from the young woman, asking him to fetch her home from a meeting that evening.
From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas
A verbal message means only a message in words; an oral message is a message by word of mouth.
From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
The mode of giving this notification has been by an oral message delivered by his private secretary.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 3: James Knox Polk by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
