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How can you use “spelled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In the "X" article, the landmark 1947 essay that spelled out the fundamentals of America's Cold War strategy, George Kennan argued that "the Kremlin has no compunction about retreating in the face of superior force.
I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).
Sign- in signal and paradigm- in paradigmatic are spelled phonemically, but as isolated words they contain a letter,
, which has no counterpart in the phonemic representation. The ruminative uh , which most people can faithfully reproduce, used to be spelled as unh , in an attempt to get in that glottal effect, but all it did was mislead youngsters into pronouncing an n where none was intended.
David’s sister Marjory had married Walter the Steward, and their son was the first of the long line of Stewart (later spelled Stuart) monarchs who would reign over Scotland — and, subsequently, Great Britain — until the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688.
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