Example sentences for: spellings

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

  • From the sheer numerical point of view, there can be no doubt that literature provides us with most examples of modified spellings, the vast majority in fact being found in dialogues in novels.

  • What I am getting at are titles with skew spellings, rogue punctuation, and “weird and wonderful” names and words that are difficult to relate to anything meaningful.

  • My sampling contains about fifty other words that have either two or three variant spellings each.

  • First, let us look at the statistics (as presented on the back of the dustjacket of the New Shorter [NSOED ]): 500,000 definitions; 96,600 headwords; 7.5 million words; 25,250 variant spellings; 83,000 illustrative quotations; 7300 sources of quotations (including VERBATIM and 5900 individual authors, among which appears the name of your proud editor).

  • In Canada, one rarely encounters in common usage the British spellings listed, but, while they continue to be widely used by medical professionals, even that practice has come under US influence.


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