Example sentences for: spelt

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

  • The first thing I spotted in this British edition of a book that has enjoyed enormous success in North America for some forty years, was “opthalmologist,” a common enough spelling error but, because it is spelt correctly elsewhere, merely a typo.

  • Until a decade or so ago it was spelt brahmin , which is now given as an alternate spelling, and has survived in such expressions of common occurrence as Boston Brahmins . While every literate American may not be familiar with the expression, those who are will know that a Boston Brahmin refers to the aristocrats or first families of Boston such as the Cabots and the Lodges.

  • Only one thing made me a little suspicious when cranking up the system: in the descriptive text that appears on the screen, the word labeled is spelt “labelled”--decidedly unAmerican.

  • It is high time that brahman be so spelt when the caste is implied, reserving Brahman when `the Absolute' is meant.

  • Originally spelt entercourse , it comes from the French entrecours `commerce,' which is from the Latin intercursus (also `commerce').


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