Sentence examples for like telegraph from inspiring English sources

Oberoi Bali, Indonesia Palms tower like telegraph poles and frangipani trees drop their flamingo-pink petals into the pool in luscious gardens dotted with thatched villas.

But with their emancipation in various European countries, as Rabbi Mintz noted in a recent interview, Jews began to create eruvim, first using natural boundaries like rivers and later technological markers like telegraph poles.

In long, intoxicating sentences, with chains of adjectives and commas strung out across the page like telegraph lines through a forest, Pynchon mapped the city and its hinterland: a maze of old logging mansions and unmarked roads, sudden fogs and "long redwood mountainslopes where shadows came early and brought easy suspicion of another order of things".

The AP was formed in the 1840s as an association of New York City newspapers that needed to share resources like telegraph wires and horseback couriers.

It caps off an era — Web 1.0, for lack of a better term — that will soon be remembered much like telegraphs and rotary phones.

"Just like telegraphs had been replaced by telephones and horse and buggies by cars, the free market had again chosen a winner.

Is it signaling, like telegraphs?

Steam and fossil fuels became the dominant energy regime and electronic communications, like telegraphs, radios, telephones, and television, became the dominant means of communication.

And it is unbearably invasive, as the sphinx-like Laura Bush telegraphed in every gesture while she occupied the East Wing.

At 4 or 5, he learned to dial by using the hookswitch like a telegraph key.

The bomb was fake, but that hasn't stopped several Australian publications like The Telegraph from in-depth reporting on so-called collar bombs.