SPELL in a Sentence
Learn SPELL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
56 example sentences for SPELL, such as:
1. The spelling of the word is wrong.
2. A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
3. Don't be so careless about / with spelling.
4. Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel.
5. The dry spell quickly diminished our water suply.
2. A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
3. Don't be so careless about / with spelling.
4. Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel.
5. The dry spell quickly diminished our water suply.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SPELL
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spell
v. write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
v. relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 She could not spell particularly well but she found that she could print letters when she tried.
2 Thus the spell was broken, and all who had been turned into stones awoke, and took their proper forms.
3 Well," said Joe, glancing up at the Dutch clock, "she's been on the Ram-page, this last spell, about five minutes, Pip.
4 'Why yes, I've took a short spell at The Willing Mind tonight,' said Mr. Peggotty.
5 The man, the human being, broke the spell at once.
6 Suellen was going to have another baby--she spelled this out so the children would not comprehend--and Ella had shown unwonted spirit in biting Suellen's oldest girl.
7 Over this document the family pored long, while Ona spelled out its contents.
8 We read and spelled together, wrote a little, picked flowers, sang, and listened to stories of the world beyond the hill.
9 Only an insane contortion of spelling could portray his lyric whine, his mangled consonants.
10 "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
11 They were like poetry but they were only sentences to learn the spelling from.
12 I saw at once that I was on the right track; phonetic spelling had again misled me.
13 She wrote to him formal, monotonous, and dry letters, to which she attached no importance herself, and in the rough copies of which the countess corrected her mistakes in spelling.
14 Then he changed the spelling, substituting a z for the s and adding de and the article le, still without obtaining the desired result.
15 Then there were reading exercises, and a spelling fight.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
2 He's going through a bit of a bad spell at the moment.
3 Since last century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists to Egypt.
4 Be assertive and spell out exactly how you feel.
5 Viera ended his barren spell with a goal against Parma.
6 Will you please spell your name for me; it's one I'm not familiar with.
7 The dry spell quickly diminished our water suply.
8 Refer to the dictionary when you don't know how to spell a word.
9 After a quiet spell there was a sudden flurry of phone calls.
10 Don't be so careless about / with spelling.
11 In American spelling "travelled" only has one "l".
12 The teacher told the student to pay attention to his spelling.
13 The spelling of the word is wrong.
14 The campaign for spelling reform has been resurrected.
15 Check and double-check spelling and punctuation.