Example sentences for: spelled

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

  • "So, instead of that, I spelled it out:

  • This action spelled the end of public tolerance of the regime, which collapsed eight months later when the junta attempted to overthrow the Cypriot president, Archbishop Makarios, provoking the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

  • Though there’s little to distinguish many of these resorts, Binibeca Vell (also spelled Binibèquer Vell) is something different.

  • Dreams that, decades later, back at my hotel in Fez,A bucket of cold water was suddenly poured on.I'd gone to the hammam, stripped, and lay on a patternOf sopping tiles that might have spelled God's will.Steam shrouded the attendant methodically soapingThe knots of disappointment he'd knuckled in my back.He paused.

  • 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.


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