telegraph wire in a sentence
Examples
- They guarded the United States-Mexican border, strung telegraph wires and, more often, kept the Indians in line.
- Despite these problems, Bakewell's machine was capable of transmitting handwriting and simple line drawings along telegraph wires.
- They cut the telegraph wires and easily captured the armory, which was being defended by a single watchman.
- Trees, power lines, and telegraph wires were uprooted or knocked down by high winds along the Suwannee River.
- "London Calling for a Boston Lawyer " reads the headline on a London Daily Telegraph wire service story.
- They failed to locate ammunition but did succeed in cutting telephone and telegraph wires and disrupting train movements.
- By 1947, underground cables had replaced overhead telephone and telegraph wires that snapped under the weight of ice.
- A Western Union telegraph wire was set up direct from Columbia, with information " broadcast " to Lawrence.
- High winds brought down telegraph wires and left the city almost entirely cut off from communication with outside locations.
- Tim and Chito ride to Terry's camp just as three masked men are destroying the camp and telegraph wires.