Sentence examples for a telegraphic from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, Canty accomplishes this by means of a telegraphic, fragment-rich style of writing.

Wants a telegraphic message sent to his wife, New Canaan, Ct.

The critic Alexander Woollcott got a telegraphic no to his request signed "Fidèle-de-Port-Manech". Fidèle was Barnes's dog.

When he first joined the bank, it had a telegraphic codebook for communicating with the head office, in Hong Kong.

The Internet is still in a telegraphic stage of development, in the sense that the complexity and expense of PCs prevents many people from using it.

The magnificent seven transfer deals Abbey National: A telegraphic transfer (takes two to five days in Europe) sent in sterling or foreign currency costs £25.

And as a relic of ruined or radically altered art, there is a fleet, telegraphic ink study by Rembrandt suggesting an ambitious painting that survives only in a much reduced state.

On international submarine cables, left and right swings of a light-beam reflected from a tiny rotating mirror were used to represent dots and dashes.Meanwhile a distinct telegraphic subculture was emerging, with its own customs and vocabulary, and a hierarchy based on the speed at which operators could send and receive Morse code.

(I shouldn't joke; a full-time reporter's job in a Midwestern city may soon be a prize rarer than a big lottery win.) Augustine relates his story in a terse, telegraphic, tough-guy voice that feels as manufactured and artificial as the plot.

DHS/USCIS WASHDC should be a direct telegraphic info addressee.

Consider the aimless, abandoned wife in the opening story, "Happy Love," whose failed marriage is relegated to backdrop status, dispatched in a few telegraphic words: "No one died from infidelity".