How to Use teletype in a Sentence

teletype

noun
  • The page was torn off the teletype at that point, no doubt to be saved for future reference.
    — Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • And there was this teletype terminal, which is just a printer and a keyboard, no screen.
    — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
  • News flowed slowly before the internet age; teletype machines clacked out stories at 66 words per minute.
    — Jay Reeves, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That morning, newsrooms across the United States erupted with the ringing of bells on teletype machines.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Their secrets were accessible only via punch card and teletype terminals.
    — Margaret O'Mara, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Goldfinger didn’t know that when he was summoned to the skipper, who had received a Naval teletype from the secretary of the Navy.
    — Menachem Wecker, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • His elementary school had a teletype machine that was connected to a mainframe computer.
    — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 2 May 2018
  • The officer sent out a teletype about the missing car and told the man to contact the dealership to obtain ownership proof and the license plate number.
    — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019
  • At that time, broadcasts of away games were based in the Brooklyn studio, via teletype communication with the actual game site.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The device, called a teletype, was essentially a mechanical typewriter that displayed text on a glass screen.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Red lights started flashing and the Associated Press teletype machine came alive while a bell rang out loud and constant.
    — Steve Koester, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Baudot’s teletype machine, also called a teletypewriter, used a five-key keyboard, write Froehlich and Kent.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The interrogator can interact with the subject only through a teletype (today a computer screen).
    — Tony Rothman, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
  • There was the endless wire service teletype equipment spitting out news, the chatter of typewriters and telephones constantly ringing.
    — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • Anyone with access to a teletype or video terminal could dial into CBBS.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2016
  • The center is now filled with war-era uniforms, pictures and other items, including the teletype machine that Parker says printed out the notices when the boys were killed.
    — Alan Suderman, The Seattle Times, 20 May 2019
  • In 1961, state of the art communications consisted of landlines and teletypes.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 July 2019
  • In those days, computers took up entire rooms, and users accessed them through teletype terminals—electric typewriters hooked up to either a serial cable or a modem and a phone line.
    — ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Players wrote their moves on a teletype, a typewriter electronically connected to the computer, which both printed the moves on paper and sent them to the computer.
    — Noah Wardrip-Fruin, The Conversation, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Some used teletype machines— the mechanical descendants of telegraph operators—as a way to transmit or print out information.
    — Gretchen McCulloch, WIRED, 23 July 2019
  • Back then, mainframe computers were so expensive, most companies could afford only one, and employees communicated with it via clunky teletype.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In his acceptance speech, Ken described Roberta taking him to dinner after playing a text adventure game on a teletype machine, and sharing her vision for what a video game could be.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2017
  • His mother, Carrie (Hibel), a teletype operator, later changed their surname to Lipton.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • In 1943 Bell Labs discovered that a teletype machine would cause a nearby oscilloscope's readings to move every time someone typed on it.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 21 June 2020
  • Officer Timothy Blaise was working in the command center when a message came in via teletype – a device that police departments used at the time to share information.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • At first, the fun of being at a newspaper, where I was hired as a clerical worker, was knowing stuff ahead of everyone else, as news bulletins lurching forth from the teletype machine pretty much set the tone and the pace of the day.
    — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2019
  • Meg was also on the board of an organization supporting deaf children, which inspired her to give Glover’s character a deaf daughter who communicates with him using a teletype machine.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Through the teletype sent on the day of the incident, Gray learned that one of those arrested was the security officer for the committee to re-elect then-President Nixon.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • The exhibition gave thousands of visitors an opportunity to see, and in some cases use, minicomputers, teletype equipment, high-speed copy machines, and closed-circuit television.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
  • With that identification, detectives put together a teletype announcing the prosecutor’s office’s recovery of body parts.
    — Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021

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