1·She has sent text messages to her family telling them not to worry.
她已发短信给家人，告诉他们不要担心。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·How can you detect a liar through text messages?
你怎么能通过短信发现一个骗子呢?
3·Actually, sending text messages and writing micro blogs allow us to exchange thoughts.
事实上，发短信和写微博可以让我们交流各自的想法。
4·Constantly checking email, text messages, and social media all steal your valuable time.
不停地查看电子邮件、短信和社交媒体都会浪费你宝贵的时间。
5·Text messages cost carriers less than traditional mobile voice transmissions, and so they cost users less.
比起传统的移动语音传输，文字短信使运营商花费的成本更低，因此用户的成本也更低。
6·On the other hand, memes make online messaging chatting closer to real-life than just sending text messages.
另一方面，相比发短信，表情包使网上聊天更接近现实生活。
7·As mobile phone text messages like "I CN C U" show, it is often possible to leave out a lot of data without losing much meaning.
诸如“I CN C U”这样的手机短信，通常可以省略大量数据而不会失去意义。
8·He is one of the premier innovators in how 160-character text messages – or SMS on a mobile phone—serve vulnerable children in Africa.
在利用160字的短信，或者说手机的短信服务来造福非洲那些脆弱的孩子方面，他是一个杰出的创新者之一。
9·When the teacher left, two students who I often saw text in class started boasting about how they sent text messages and never got caught.
老师走后，两个经常在课堂上发短信的学生开始吹嘘自己是如何发短信，而且从来没有被抓到过。
10·By 2016, the average American high school senior said they spent six hours a day writing text messages, on social media, and online during their free time.
截至2016年，美国高中高年级学生说他们在空闲时间里平均每天要花6个小时的时间写短信、上社交媒体以及上网。