Example sentences for: typewriter

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

  • 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).

  • To some extent this was true, but it was also a bit silly, since before the typewriter there was a great emphasis on people developing uniform, depersonalized handwriting to ensure legibility.

  • In a cartoon from the '50s, a slightly paunchy middle-aged man, smoking a stogie under an umbrella on the beach, tells his petite, bikini-clad secretary sitting at his feet with her typewriter, "Take a postcard, Miss Hobbs."

  • The document appears to have been typed on a manual typewriter.

  • Even the changing of the paper in the typewriter seemed somehow to be incorporated into the rhythmic rat-tat-tat ...


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