Example sentences for: spelt

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

  • 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.

  • It is the money name in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, and, spelt Schilling , in Austria.

  • On the same grounds, it is incumbent on editors to engage as reviewers of dictionaries lexicographers who are knowledgeable about the genre, not amateurs who occasionally look up one word to see how it is spelt or another to find out what it means.

  • 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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