telegraphically
IPA: tˈɛɫʌgræfɪkɫi
adverb
- By means of telegraphy.
- In the concise style of a telegraph.
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Examples of "telegraphically" in Sentences
- So can I again ask you to deal telegraphically with me?
- The journal entries were telegraphically brief: 'Weakness,' 'Snowed in,' 'Disaster,' 'Fall through the ice.'
- In constructing his narrative, Isegawa is deft at telegraphically downloading dense personal histories for his characters, major and minor.
- *After the invention of the telegraph and until 1849, observations were telegraphically transmitted to the Smithsonian Institution, which prepared the weather maps.
- Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers.
- Questionable whether the grammatical error ought to be flagged as niggle-nitzing; but, her assertion's just plain wrong since, that "evocative poetry" is, in fact, a telegraphically compressed up-summing, one that contains a lovely group of allusive word-ploys, IMO.
- On March 7, 1876, the United States Patent Office granted to Bell Patent Number 174,465 covering “The method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sounds.”
- "And besides, viewed telegraphically, there is nothing at all romantic in the whole affair!" said Nattie, who, between her confusion at the turn the conversation had taken, and her alarm lest something should be said about that chubby Cupid -- whom it will be remembered she had suppressed in her former description to "C" -- was decidedly embarrassed.
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