TYPEWRITER in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for TYPEWRITER, such as:

1. I bought my son a portable typewriter.
2. I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing.
3. I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting.
4. He brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took my typewriter.
5. As she came in, she handed a number of sheets of typewriting to Van Helsing.

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typewriter
 n.  hand-operated character printer for printing written messages, one character at a time
Classic Sentence:
1  When he was alone he tapped-tapped-tapped on a typewriter, to infinity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  For Connie had suggested to Mrs Bolton that she should learn to use a typewriter.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  Clifford was sitting up in bed, with the bed-table and typewriter pushed aside, and the keeper was standing at attention at the foot of the bed.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  I had already noticed the peculiarities of the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business address asking him if he would come here.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
5  A maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
6  I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  He brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took my typewriter.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I earn at typewriting.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
11  I then glanced at her face, and, observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed to surprise her.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
12  My suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even the smallest sample of it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
13  I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
14  As she came in, she handed a number of sheets of typewriting to Van Helsing.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  On the piteous spectacle of the pair spending their evenings in shorthand schools and polytechnic classes, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the elementary schools, let me not dwell.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
Example Sentence:
1  I bought my son a portable typewriter.