telegram

[US]/'telɪgræm/
[UK]/'tɛlɪɡræm/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. telegram
vt. send a message using a telegram
vi. send a telegram

Phrases & Collocations

send a telegram

telegram service

receive a telegram

urgent telegram

Example Sentences

a telegram with reply prepaid

It’s a telegram in cipher.

a telegram in code language

Did you get my telegram?

The telegram was delivered early this morning.

Will you hand on this telegram to your friend?

hundreds of telegrams lined the walls.

In writing telegrams omit superfluous words.

They dispatched a telegram to the old man's son.

Did you forward his telegram?

I received two telegrams today.

If we reword the telegram we can save one-third of the cost.

The telegram turned out to have been bogus.

Did you get my telegram last Sunday?

Brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram ; you are charged for every word.

The government got many telegrams and letters of consolation when the President died.

The company office was inundated with telegrams of congratulations on the tenth anniversary of its foundation.

He sent her off a telegram announcing his immediate return to Queenstown.

" Fearing disagreeables at home after the "tiff" this morning, I sent a telegram to Carrie, telling her I was going out to dine and she was not to sit up .

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