Example sentences for: spell

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

  • We had fallen under the spell of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, whose shoulders curved with easy finesse, and whose heads sat high atop swanlike necks, just waiting for crowns.

  • The psychologist Carol Gilligan, in her fine book In a Different Voice , has probed the destructive consequences of manly silence--for men themselves as much as for the women and children who fall under the spell of this silence.

  • But since different individuals have different ideas about how the Devanagari and Arabic alphabets should be transliterated, in many cases there is no single “correct” way to spell a specific word and, instead, dictionaries offer several--sometimes as many as six--acceptable variant spellings.

  • This, warns O'Beirne, could spell "real trouble" for the president.

  • A reporter's skeptical question to Clinton "broke the spell" of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's remarks upon being nominated to the Supreme Court, thereby injuring citizens' "sense of connection" to "our judicial system."


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