Example sentences for: spelled

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

  • 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.

  • He has thought it through, spelled it out, and told you who's asking it and why.

  • (Note: The opening sentence or paragraph of a news story is also known as the lead, but usually spelled "lede" to avoid confusion.)

  • Perhaps if he spelled it properly as one word--not two--he would see it as we do: a logical name of a river (and town) derived from the local native Americans.

  • On the morning of 9 September 1990, in a report on the Bush-Gorbachov meeting in Helsinki, a reporter on CNN (the US Cable News Network) referred to the conference using a term that could only be spelled “tête-à-thé,” which might have been some strange metaphor meaning `head in the tea'; or perhaps it was an oblique reference to China or to hocking a tchainik `gossiping.


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