Example sentences for: typewriter

How can you use “typewriter” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yet when Daley dropped dead of a heart attack in 1976, Royko sat down at his typewriter and banged out a column that was both an interpretation and an appreciation.

  • Now the sewing machine, like the typewriter, is fast disappearing.

  • Obituaries of the author of Naked Lunch highlight his importance as a countercultural role model, calling him "the non-conformist's non-conformist" (the Boston Globe ) who "inspired a who's who of pop culture" ( USA Today ). They dwell on the artists (Beats, punk rockers) who embraced Burroughs as a guru, and retell bizarre anecdotes from his life (he shot his wife accidentally, slept with little boys, and hawked his typewriter to buy heroin).

  • She'd probably have said a prayer, except she's too busy reading the missive in the bottle, which has been lovingly composed on a manual typewriter.

  • Paul David, an economic historian who wrote a famous paper about how the QWERTYUIOP typewriter keyboard evolved and, you guessed it, Brian Arthur.


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