Example sentences for: spelled

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

  • By the people who wear chaps the article is invariably called as if spelled shaps . Two linguistic forces have shaped this word: the English-language tendency to reduce words to a single syllable (e.g.

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

  • Until the last few years it was spelled Chungking, by which name the city was best known in the West as the political and military capital of the Nationalist government from 1939 to 1945, the wartime redoubt of Chiang Kai-shek.

  • Here is precisely what Clinton said (at an unrelated awards ceremony for "blue ribbon schools" at the Washington Hilton; interestingly, the transcription available on the White House Web site spells it "bum-fusseled," which is incorrect; Chatterbox here uses the text supplied by the Federal News Service, which spelled bumfuzzled correctly):

  • High spelled as hi is frequently found in compounds such as hijack and hi-fi.


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