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Example sentences for: spelled

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' When French explorers came upon the name, they knew enough Sioux to know the name meant `board,' so they used a translated version of the Indian name and called it la Riviére Platte . English speakers adopted the French name and talked about the Platte River . They named one of the towns on its banks North Platte . But when the state applied for admission to the Union in 1867, it was under the original Indian name which they spelled Nebraska .
The drama is spelled out in that lumbering bible, Das Kapital , where in the deepening crises of capitalism, and the sharpening knives of the class struggle, the end of days arrives, as Marx put it in the penultimate chapter of Volume I, when the capitalist "integument" bursts asunder, and the new society, nurtured in the womb of the old, steps forth as social labor, cooperative labor, communal harmony (the transit workers and Giuliani) in a mutual embrace.
High spelled as hi is frequently found in compounds such as hijack and hi-fi.
Johnson believed that ugly , which was sometimes spelled oughly , derived from ouph , a variant of elf . Modern experts are satisfied that it grew from Old Norse uggligr `to be feared or dreaded.
(In case his fiction leaves any ambiguity, Theroux spelled out his support for the Hong Kong democrats in a recent New Yorker article.)