Example sentences for: spelled

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

  • When I was an undergraduate at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute about 30 years ago, it was widely believed that "knurd" (the pronunciation was the same) was simply "drunk" spelled backward.

  • Other languages are spelled out.

  • But grammar enters the picture here, too, and dictionaries are remiss in syntactic description of how the language works in comparison with what its words mean, how they are spelled and pronounced, and where they came from.

  • It was spelled incorrectly in VERBATIM.

  • The capital of the new empire was built on the site of present-day Beijing and was called “Dadu” or, in Mongolian, “Cambaluc” — spelled Kanbalu by that most renowned of medieval travelers, Marco Polo.


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