In a sentence
Six example sentences with telex, each labelled with its topic.
Foreign desks once kept a telex clattering in the corner, printing bulletins from three continents onto a paper roll.
History
Before fax machines, a trading house confirmed every shipment by telex, and the printed strip served as the record.
Business
The set designers found a working telex, and its slow mechanical typing gave the newsroom scenes their period sound.
Movies
Banks confirmed each transfer by telex, and the clerk pasted the printed strip into a ledger that afternoon.
Finance
The hotel booked rooms by telex in those days, and a confirmation strip was pinned to each guest's file.
Travel
The embassy telex rattled at midnight with instructions from the capital, and the ambassador read them at the machine.
Politics
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