Typewriter

/[ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)]/

"Typewriter" in a Sentence (17 examples)

"I can't think with that noise," she said, as she stared at the typewriter.

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

If you can use this typewriter perfectly in a month, you may keep it.

Is there any chance of my borrowing your typewriter?

Can I use your typewriter?

The girl lent her friend her new typewriter.

I'll give you my typewriter in exchange for that radio.

Janet always lets me use her typewriter.

The operation of a computer keyboard requires less effort than that of a manual typewriter.

I got this typewriter at a bargain price.

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So many mongrel words, like typist and typewritist, have been introduced, we propose a fixed designation of—typewriter, to mean the person who writes, and writing machine, the device.

He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.

The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?"

The battle had opened in earnest. From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.

It was like sinking to sleep in a soft, dry bed with a big drink of brandy in you after you're dog-tired from a tour of duty on the firing-step, or slipping into a warm bath when you're lousy-dirty and chilled to the bone from crawling through mud and filth and dodging flares and 'typewriter' bullets half the night.

Why, any day I'd go up against a typewriter, with a forty-five. One shot I'd need and there'd be time for three while he was getting that damn' thing swung around and pointed —

Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters."

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