How to Use typewriter in a Sentence

typewriter

noun
  • One day, she was asked to try out a new kind of typewriter in the newsroom.
    — Rebecca Chace, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • His teeth had stopped clicking like typewriter keys.
    — Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • My mother wrote on an old typewriter.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The writer turns and looks at the page sprouting out of his typewriter.
    — Alex Martin Smith, ajc, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Instead, the guy talks to dead barkeeps and wields an ax more than his typewriter.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • No longer able to use a typewriter, Shepard wrote his first drafts by hand.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The good guys—or at least the likable guys—were the ones behind the typewriters.
    — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
  • Her mom’s legs are my mom’s, as is the typewriter Leo was sitting at.
    — Jane Ciabattari july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
  • For many of us, the phone call over the past few years has gone the way of the telegraph and the typewriter.
    — David Pierce, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • White, who had turned seventy that month, sat down at his typewriter.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • There are old typewriters and stacks of reporters’ notebooks on one floor.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Plus, people had to take time to write them all down with a typewriter or in longhand back then.
    — Todd Shields, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The letters are white typewriter font, and there are large, red crosshairs behind them.
    — Morgan Krakow, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
  • So Wednesday is back at the typewriter.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As each one does, bookies will go the way of the typewriter in the computer era.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
  • Caro works on a Smith-Corona typewriter and marks up his drafts by hand.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Running off at the typewriter … Will somebody please tell these golfers to get with it?
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Issue 10, the one with the pen nubs, was a lot like the typewriter approach.
    — Kei Lim june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
  • Fifty years ago, Kevin Williamson’s mother gave him a typewriter.
    — Ashley Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
  • The traces were found on the corners of the page, where Orwell would have pulled it from his typewriter.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Okay, so your daughter wants to write like Taylor, but her dorm desk doesn’t quite fit a typewriter.
    — Annie Blackman, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In the film version, the noise of a carriage return on a typewriter covers the curse word.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The writer used language that did not sound like him and the letters were written on a typewriter.
    — Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The singer shared a social media post where she is seen with a typewriter and making edits to a movie script.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 16 July 2024
  • But for young people, who are embracing typewriters and vinyl, the glitches are part of the charm.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That’s where the idea for the typewriter comes from, and later the computer keyboard.
    — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2016
  • At one point, a Temple House denizen spills ink on Petrie’s typewriter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Mike showed Drew something on his phone that Drew couldn’t make out, maybe an early typewriter.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • At 90 degrees to the command centre of the desk was a typewriter with the blank paper set.
    — The Economist, 26 May 2018
  • The assignment carries lessons beyond simply how to use a typewriter, which is the whole point.
    — ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026

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