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Typewriter in sentence

44 examples of Typewriter in a sentence

This is a typewriter, a staple of every desktop for decades.
And, in fact, the typewriter was essentially deleted by this thing.
And if you have a system where they're being replaced one by the other, it's like the monkeys writing on a typewriter.
And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email.
Yes, they gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
In the 1980s, in communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government.
You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter.
Of course, computers and electronics are now America's biggest industry, while typewriter makers have vanished.
And they said, "We do not intend to be a typewriter maker."
Dad talked a lot about bad design when we were growing up, you know, "Bad design is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.
It's paying a tribute to the wonderful typewriter that my mother used to type on all the time as a legal secretary.
(Typing noises) (Typewriter bell) It's peaceful, like that.
On a manual typewriter it was very difficult, and even when we had electric typewriters, or then computer keyboards, the fact is that even if you can type easily enough to keep up with the pace of speech, more or less, you have to have somebody who can receive your message quickly.
I'd written my first coauthored labor law book on a typewriter in 1979 purely from memory.
You may have heard about Rathergate, which was basically the result of bloggers realizing that the "th" in 111 is not typeset on an old typewriter; it's on Word.
(Toy squeaks) (Typewriter) (Drums) (Ping-pong) (Knives being sharpened) (Record scratches) (Saw cuts) (Woman screams) What I'm sort of trying to demonstrate with these tools is that sound is a language.
In fact, the very first typewriter was originally called "the writing harpsichord."
At twelve, she begged her mother for a typewriter after enduring a campy science fiction film called "Devil Girl From Mars." Unimpressed with what she saw, Butler knew she could tell a better story.
First, what if Hedge went row by row, like a typewriter?
The advantage of the typewriter approach is that it’s a more generalized solution, meaning it can be adapted much more simply to fill in any pattern.
An untidy man, known as Bill, lives in a small dreary flat, with a poster of Marilyn Monroe on the wall, and his typewriter for company.
Perhaps best of all, there's Pia's typewriter, but instead of keys there are the miniature talking heads of those who have tormented her the most (afterwards, I was afraid to open my laptop).
Unfortunately, I got the distinct impression that if I read the book of Revelation to a monkey and set the monkey in front of a typewriter for an hour, I could've gotten a better script.
The spaceship props are absurd--a Bulova wall clock and portable typewriter, for example--but the planet sets have got to be some of the worst in cinematic history.
A newspaperman (Johnny Twennies) living in the 90's with a complete 20's personality and lifestyle - fedora, manual typewriter, the Charleston, the works.
eg the final denouement is told to the viewer by a typewriter screen.
This whole production just screams nobody cared, screen writing brings images of monkeys with a typewriter to mind.
The authors, George Perez and Marv Wolfman, spent about twelve years of their lives writing them, using a typewriter.
The song is sung many times during the course of the film and used for a somewhat silly finale, where Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon dance on typewriter keys (a really tacky set).
This director, for instance, never rose above the level of his screenplays: if he had Waldo Salt or William Goldman at the typewriter, he was fine.