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Example sentences for "telegraphists"

Lexicographically close words:
telegraphers; telegraphic; telegraphically; telegraphing; telegraphist; telegraphs; telegraphy; telekinetic; telemetry; teleological
  1. This is admitted, though we understand that it is open to any telegraphists to acquire a knowledge of Postal business, and so qualify for promotion on either side.

  2. When business is slack the telegraphists sometimes amuse themselves by an interchange of badinage with their distant friends.

  3. It is the sound of the iron tongue striking against these stops that makes the clicking, and to which the telegraphists are sensitively alive.

  4. Strings of grey spiders hurrying south, would be brigades of cyclist telegraphists or sharpshooters, and processions of drab beetles scuttling along, Field Ambulances, or Staff motor-cars.

  5. Telegraphists were sorely needed, so Macrombie of the racking hoast and the shaky hand was passed as fit for Service, and duty rated as Petty Officer Telegraphist aboard one of the contemned tin-pots.

  6. All the Government telegraphists fit for duty had to be called in to meet the pressure, and all the available instruments were worked.

  7. All the lady telegraphists we have heard of gave satisfaction to all parties concerned.

  8. The telegraphists crowded to look after him, but he did not turn his head.

  9. The Women Counter Clerks and Telegraphists in the provinces get nothing, although the men of the same class get 2s.

  10. The demand for equality of remuneration with the male staff which was put forward by the Women Telegraphists and the Women Clerks has been completely ignored.

  11. The duties of men and women telegraphists are more closely comparable than their respective work in any other class in the Civil Service, practically the only differentiation being that women are debarred from night duty.

  12. The Women Telegraphists get nothing, the Women Telephonists nothing, the Women Clerks of the First and Second classes, £10 and £5 increase in the maximum salary respectively.

  13. The telegraphists report that they were fairly and courteously treated.

  14. On arrival the Emden was still using her now famous fourth funnel, a dummy, and this it was that caused the telegraphists to mistake her in the first instance for the Minotaur, which is a four-funnelled armoured cruiser.

  15. The decrease in the volume of work admits of telegraphists aiding their brother officers on the postal side.

  16. All holidays are suspended for the time being, which enables some telegraphists to undertake postal duty; clerical labour is stopped, outside help is obtained, and altogether additional labour provided for to the extent of 50 per cent.

  17. The telegraphists were kind to me; but neither they nor the doctor (veterinary, I believe he was) knew what was the matter with me; and every night the steam that rose from the damp mud floor of my room only added to my illness.

  18. Others, the telegraphists and telephonists are in the Signalling Corps and these are the only ones who wear Army badges.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telegraphists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.