Example sentences for: typewriters

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

  • It's true that he's drawn to machinery, but his favorite devices are typewriters and accordions and siphons--nonthreatening mechanisms that lack the depersonalizing, menacing quality of, say, Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis . Although Léger was a Communist, with pronounced sympathy for the working man, his experience of factory conditions apparently was limited to what he'd heard from his fellow card-playing soldiers.

  • go the same way as the buggy whip and typewriters," says Harris.

  • When they are done, we talk about how this was different from the more conventional writing technologies they are used to: pencil and paper, computer (few seem to use typewriters anymore).

  • There was a complaint voiced in the New York Times when typewriters were coming into favor in offices that the typewriter depersonalized the written word, since the reader seemed further removed from actual contact with the human element in writing.

  • For example, we generally prefer typewriters to Microsoft Word, and we find that our sturdy abacus crashes less often than Excel.


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