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Example sentences for "typewriters"

Lexicographically close words:
typesetter; typesetting; typework; typewrite; typewriter; typewriting; typewritten; typhoid; typhoon; typhoons
  1. In addition, stock tickers, telephones, telephone switchboards, and typewriters were made the Hammond typewriters were perfected and made there.

  2. Typewriters might well be mandatory for the ephemeral news item, but I had been hired as a special correspondent and someday my manuscript would be a valuable property.

  3. All twenty typewriters were hammering out their hundred words a minute.

  4. I tell you, my pretty typewriters are going to put you out of business.

  5. There was a blinding flash, a hiss, and the eternal clacking of the typewriters was replaced by silence.

  6. These typewriters were first introduced to the general public under the management of the original inventors (Sholes, Soule and Glidden) about 1873, and at first used only capital letters.

  7. Next among the earlier typewriters is to be mentioned the "Hammond," made under the patents to J.

  8. Typewriters for short hand characters, and for foreign languages, and for printing on record and blank books, are also among the modern developments of this art.

  9. In all typewriters accurate location of the impression is essential to proper alignment of the letters, and proper alignment is the sine qua non of typewriting.

  10. Shadows of vague moving forms could be discerned on the opalescent glass, and the chatter of typewriters was almost disconcerting.

  11. And as he progressed, the merry din of typewriters grew louder and louder.

  12. In the outer office typewriters clicked, clients hung over desks, and the traffic of a busy morning proceeded.

  13. The two men were by this time in Mr. Osgood's private office, and the closing door shut out the click of typewriters and the other sounds of the larger room outside.

  14. Since then, typewriters have penetrated into virtually every office in the civilized world.

  15. With a wave of her fan, she dismissed the lawyer, who began to think lady stenographers and typewriters a class worthy of platonic attention.

  16. There were several young lady typewriters of respectable city connections in the offices of Messrs.

  17. He had interested himself, also, in lady typewriters since his return, and had compelled some to take a much-needed holiday.

  18. A plaintive minor note seemed to creep into the tinkling chorus of the many busy typewriters behind many little wooden partitions.

  19. Timidly and nervously the busy typewriters behind the little partitions started to tinkle out their doleful staccato again.

  20. There were also three telephones on the table and several typewriters here and there.

  21. I thought perhaps that different makers adopted different arrangements of the notes, as makers of typewriters do.

  22. The library was full of intelligent-looking young Filipinos, the cut of their clothes as obviously American as the typewriters clicking behind doors.

  23. Typewriters clicking everywhere; tongues born to Filipino, then turned to Spanish, now twisting themselves with English.

  24. Both typewriters and garments indicated efficiency, but I could no more say what was the impulse in the being within those clothes than what thoughts were being fixed in permanence to the sound of an American typewriter.

  25. Three cheers again we hear them say, The typewriters have come to stay, To teach us all to read and spell And punctuate so very well.

  26. Typewriters never like to have their people take the liberty of lending them.

  27. Two men changing typewriters or motor-cars are, though more subtly, like two men changing boots.

  28. The old house, with its great stone staircase, echoed hollowly to the sound of typewriters and of errand-boys from ten to six.

  29. The American typewriters in the next room clicked and rattled.

  30. In another, a long line of American typewriters and mimeographing machines wrote out and copied the orders which were regularly distributed to the front.

  31. Underwood Billing Machine ] All typewriters equipped with special attachments for holding the sales sheets, invoices, and orders are called cylinder billing machines.

  32. Typewriters have been used for a number of years, and of late years adding machines have made headway.

  33. In recent years, the typewriter companies have placed devices on their typewriters which permit of the sales sheet being held independently of the invoices.

  34. It is easier to handle unit billing forms on the typewriters with billing attachments, which is an added reason that many firms prefer to use them.

  35. It should also be understood that all typewriters and billing machines are equipped with marginal stops.

  36. The regular rubber rolls which are furnished with typewriters are medium hard—in six months or a year they gradually grow harder, eventually becoming as hard as slate.

  37. In estimating the distance between lines, it should be borne in mind that all typewriters and billing machines are arranged for spacing one line, two lines, and three lines.

  38. He shook hands slackly with her, placed a chair for her in one of the bays of a sort of =E= that was lined with books of reference, and she listened to his soft, dispirited voice and to the clicking of typewriters in an adjoining room.

  39. Can you think of any reason why that might have been done, why two different typewriters were used?

  40. Now, there is a clear difference in the design of the figure "4" which shows that two different typewriters were used.

  41. I guess Fritzie got busy with his typewriters too late.

  42. Even as a youngster in pigtails, she had haunted the big noisy newsroom, pecking at the typewriters and making a pest of herself.

  43. Editor DeWitt was talking on a telephone, and, all about him, reporters were tapping typewriters at a furious pace.

  44. One day one of the typewriters called my attention to the fact that for originality I had been outdone by a fellow at Peoria, Illinois, who advertised in the leading magazines to teach ventriloquism by mail.

  45. I employed some auburn-haired typewriters and began advertising to teach several different subjects by mail courses.


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