How To Use Spell In A Sentence
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The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
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Come to think of it, it should read "sententia" but you managed to misspell in Latin the word you misspelled in English.
When Latin Tattoos Go Wrong
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A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell.
Bird Cloud
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With a bit of luck, this will finally spell the end of those unforgiving hipster trousers.
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When Connor sees that Michael's teenage son has witnessed the crime, it spells tragedy for the O'Sullivan family.
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The present study investigated how children spell words that contain silent consonants as their final letter.
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Gone are the spelling rules that bedeviled many students' days.
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Sometimes I go through spells when I just draw, when I just write, when I just paint.
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The demons that had magicked me here had put some other spell on me, also.
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And while some of us will be hoping for a balmy summer to follow, that could spell more misery for many.
The Sun
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The best defensive spell available to a Sorceress is manifest in this formidable armor.
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Paul took up the post of County Accountant in the mid-Seventies, leaving for a short spell, only to return to take up the post of Finance Officer.
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The internet is spelling the end of activities from being able to read a map to putting together a physical photo album.
The Sun
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In a slow, lackluster way she began stripping the spell off the books.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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Does household cleaning give you headaches, nausea, dizzy spells or sign irritations?
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Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
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A new spellcheck is a valuable addition, as is the enhanced search-and-replace function.
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The voice is Kelly's throughout, down to the lack of punctuation, eccentric spellings and curious syntax.
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Luckily I cast a spell on the clothes so you can't take them off.
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A sedentary lifestyle also spells bad news for hips and thighs: increase your circulation by taking more exercise.
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In her opinion, it was even money on whether or not he could correctly spell his own name.
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After a brief spell/stint in the army, he started working as a teacher.
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That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
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After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home.
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Did she use to have long hair? Note that the correct spelling is use to, not 'used to'.
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A spellbinding four hours of voices, intelligent interviews and specialists.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the small main lobby, there was an elevator with an out-of-order sign on it older than I was, an open door to a stairway, and a directory with little plastic letters spelling out the names of bail bondsmen and repo services on black felt.
Free Excerpt 2/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
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With words like "nite" and "lite" having achieved semi-acceptable status as at least "alternate spellings," I suppose it's only a matter of time before "u" become official.
Archive 2007-03-01
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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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It was funny how some couldn't spell the simplest word or even make a complete sentence!
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He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore.
Youth And Two Other Stories
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At the end of the draft, the platform spells out the traditional Democratic support for fighting discrimination and protecting civil rights.
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And, boy, did the spellchecker go mad on these sentences.
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Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
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Although the work in the compiler is not finished, Wiz also takes time to create some new spells to help common folk to deal with magical threats.
Reflective Surface - The Wizardry Compiled
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Inside the ‘wagon’ it lay bare except for some crates of different things used for casting spells.
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Any spell with an incantation has the ability to backfire if even one word in the chant is pronounced wrong.
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From time to time I forsook my own thoughts to follow him, and I followed in amaze, mastered for the moment by his remarkable intellect, under the spell of his passion, for he was preaching the passion of revolt.
Chapter 26
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Taking that idea a step further, we envisioned a ticker tape effect repeating a message spelled out in pixelated type.
Mosaic Tiles : A Fresh Bathroom Look
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But make sure you spell the way out to mc very clearly because otherwise I shan't understand.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Having experienced spells of acute water scarcity at periodic intervals, people do lament over the waste of the precious resource in such times.
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His wife hails from Hamburg, Germany, and he had a spell working as a commodity broker for a bank.
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But make sure you spell the way out to mc very clearly because otherwise I shan't understand.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Summary: Although staunch is the most common spelling of the adjective meaning “firm” and stanch is the most common spelling of the verb meaning “stop (the flow)”, both spellings are acceptable for both meanings.
Stanching staunch prescriptivism « Motivated Grammar
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Marlix feared they might be immune to his hurricane spell, but they turned out to be immune to arcance spells, including counterspell, which made it harder for us to pull them away to a quiet spot of the hall.
Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads
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You might have noticed by now that the keywords Mr. McWhorter has chosen to mark "language-ness" spell out the word "idiom"—which is apt, in that idioms are the parts of language that are the most ingrown, disheveled, intricate, oral and mixed.
Strange and Twisted Tongues
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He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
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Graduate of a City Council graffiti-spelling workshop for street kids, he knew how to decode the slogans of the day, how to phase them and how to remix them.
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But Scotland and Northern Ireland will see the best of the weather with mostly dry spells.
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A speech-impeded or misunderstood/misspelled besmirchment of character “Yo mama, she a slub.”
Regretsy – I Don’t
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They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment.
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Staff here say that would spell disaster for hundreds of alcoholics.
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Us ending a barren spell at the weekend and Farsley losing will have no bearing on this match.
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From the time the moderator gives the word, let's say it's "sesquipedalian," until your progeny very slowly spells it correctly, doesn't it seem a lifetime?
Undefined
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She had a spell as a singer before becoming an actress.
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Perhaps the biggest myth Yi dispelled was that he's some kind of big lumbering center.
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As I entered, checked and rechecked the titles and names, my main concern was spelling and correct typeface and color.
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Forecasters at the Met Office expect most of the country to be basking in sunshine during a lengthy spell of dry weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nine-year-old had just spelt the word "sergeant" correctly at her school's spelling bee when her father, a sergeant serving in Iraq, appeared from behind a curtain.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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The original, of course, was not written in English, and the spelling used ( "instil") is not uncommon.
Slate Magazine
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The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
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It seems they made a dreadful charivari at the village boundary, threw a quantity of spell-bearing objects over the border, a buffalo's skull and other things; then branded a chamur -- what you would call a currier -- on his hinder parts and drove him and a number of pigs over into Jelbo's village.
Under the Deodars
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Web sites can program their search engines to respond to common misspellings.
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Are you interested in helping adults with reading, writing, spelling or numeracy?
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I have to make the most of this good spell of form, and am pleased that we are doing well in Europe.
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He knows where the work's heart lies and how to conjure its spell from the music 's limpid simplicity and antiquarian turns of phrase.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lags staged the rooftop protest during a sunny spell and refused to come down.
The Sun
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It sounded nasty, but I didn't know if it was a spell or a swear word.
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She was spellbound by the bubbles that seemed to appear as the water cascaded in.
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In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser.
On a child's view of English
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Their professional neediness and primped vanity spells it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were no technicians with the latest equipment waiting to help him decipher the coughs, bellyaches, chest pains, dizzy spells and fevers that ailed his patients.
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I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.).
Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
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He's author of "James Dean, Mutant King," which one critic referred to as a spellbinding portrait of James Dean, had a lot of sources and new facts.
CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2004
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To be irresolute when a prompt decision should be taken would only spell disaster.
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But the song longs for the old intoxication; he misses “drinking that sweet wine,” and the song had a gospelly buildup as he sang about getting “so high in the days gone by.”
SXSW: Drinking Songs From Van Morrison - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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He used a "set of prison bars for the name Bernie Madoff" in his example for "brachygraphy" in the semifinals and later made a reference to the "The Jeffersons," a TV sitcom that went off the air some 10 years before the oldest of the spellers was born.
Pa. girl wins Bee with 'cymotrichous'
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The fine spell we've been having will bring the crops along very nicely.
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Then there are still the misspellings and unknown words.
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This marks a sad pass for a brand name that, while dreaded by many parents, spelled excitement to a generation of kids.
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Two centuries earlier an ‘evangelical’ was the equivalent of ‘a gospeller’.
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And I'm not sure my friend realised that councils have many other ways of getting their council tax and some of them can have far-reaching effects that go beyond a short spell in the nick.
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Eric: I would say “hairinate,” since the first part of the word derives from “chametz” (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, “hametz”).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Passover and the charination ritual
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Commonly, sorcerers might carry a magic implement to store power in, so the recitation of a whole spell wouldn't be necessary.
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As an object of fascination and repulsion to the two men who represent the center of authority in their respective narratives, Carmen spells a threatening other, a dark figure that resists assimilation and endangers masculine power.
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This glittering dust they produce differs from the components normally acquired by a disenchantment spell.
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All accompanied by some dodgy spelling and hyperbolic punctuation.
Times, Sunday Times
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ROBERTS: Unbelievable, also the spelling bee, the annual spelling bee wrapped up last night, the winning word serrefine.
CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007
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The field has now been re-seeded and is greening over nicely in the recent warm spell.
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I wore my summer suit pretty well through that winter, and the following summer experienced the longest, dryest spell of all, in the period when salaried men are gone on vacation and manuscripts lie in editorial offices until vacation is over.
Chapter 26
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Milton has the word alabaster three times, twice incorrectly spelled
Milton's Comus
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But it was their music which held the audience spellbound.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then came the awkward moment when Kathleen realized what she was: an amusement afforded Margaret by her latest dry spell.
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Her exercises, done with spellbinding precision and timing are a joy to behold.
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He also spelled out details of powers to be given to the new healthcare regulator to improve hospital cleanliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players.
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The problem with "scop" to me is that the reader will tend to think it's pronounced as "skop" - even if you have an appendix/note explaining OE spelling conventions.
Archaic terminology in historical fiction
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The author was most likely referring to the place now more commonly spelled "Shimonoseki".
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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Musical literacy requires knowledge of major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals and triad spelling.
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It's certainly not built the way I would have gone about it something like interlingua but with more phonemic spelling and more creole like grammar but it gets the job done.
Languagehat.com: REPRESSIVE ESPERANTO.
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It hurtles through two hours of spellbinding dialogue. It makes an untellable story clear and fascinating.
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The pupils learn to spell in school.
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Two centuries earlier an ‘evangelical’ was the equivalent of ‘a gospeller’.
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They lacked the long sleek lines of the local boats that went from tree to sea with such grace, under the shipwright's spell, turning the waves aside like coulters and combines, ploughing and harvesting.
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Teddy Roosevelt endorsed an effort to remove spellings that many Americans perceived to be cumbersome and illogical from the English language as used in America.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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I turned up a slightly cynical, badly-dressed student and left three days later, after a short spell in Southampton nick, as the blazing-eyed, still badly-dressed eco-bore I am today.
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This includes some variable spelling, e.g. crather -- crathur, plase -- plaze.
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
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Crunch played a pivotal role in the phone underground thirty years ago, and paid for it with two spells in the clink.
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It means that he can retire from spelling to focus on pursuing a career path in quantum physics.
Times, Sunday Times
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That way he can not be targeted by missile fire or some spells and will be potentially protected from war engines.
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But even the cutesy spelling of the store's name couldn't keep it afloat; the space has now reinvented itself as Spirit Halloween superstore.
Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores?
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Please tell me how to spell the word.
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He has difficulty with spelling and reading, and it takes him several minutes to perform simple functions such as knotting a tie.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
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James Forsyth on CoffeeHouse in congratulating Osborne for his intervention describes him as having been in the past "a woose", need SeanT's views on correct spelling surely its "a wuss"? and anyway he isn't going anywhere soon
Politicalbetting.com
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The magic spell touched Toulon too.
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But the particular conditions for a speed blog or 'splog' are that it must be 20 words or less, and be written without bothering to check for spelling or grammer.
Archive 2007-02-01
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The conventions of spelling will become looser.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I do a spell, I whip out a candle, make a poppet, and I chant.
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But each time, the spells of euphoria passed as quickly as they came and he would be morose.
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In book three, Helenus tells Aeneas and his men that they must seek their future from the inspired prophetess of Cumae, who spells out the decree of the fates on the fragile parchment of leaves.
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I did have a few games on the wing there but only for short spells.
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The sign was crooked and the word orphanage misspelled in faded red paint.
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For some Dene language groups there are at present competing writing systems and different spelling practices.
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The claims of mutations refer to natural phenomena; the triangles are a normal pattern variant in the Bolson tortoise populations and the pads of nopal coyotillo turn a shade of violet during a dry spell.
The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
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The old woman cast a spell on the prince and he turned into a frog.
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That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them.
The Evolution of an English Town
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It startled the three spellbound students when Dan took a step backwards into their small closed circle.
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Love spells are on the whole rather unsubtle, heavy handed pieces of work and they're usually born out of desperation.
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How I wish,there is one person spelled a life love me.
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This red delaine I wore to a spelling bee when I was about sixteen and I got a book for a prize for standing up next to last.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
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Now she had concocted a plan that would spell doom for Shirley, her revenge for taking her man and insulting her pride.
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Schemes such as interlinking of rivers could spell disaster for the environment, as they represent gross interference with natural processes, he says.
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They are referred to as go karts, go carts, go-karts, shifter karts, gokarts and many other differently spelled variations.
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A cast of 10 will employ tricks and spells such as mime, dance, live music and puppetry, thus enchanting their audience with a rainbow of stories from around the world!
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There were so many possible misspellings of the word beige (baje, biege, beyge, baige, bayje, for starters) and I kept getting it wrong on my weekly Outfit Charts.
Progressive Bloggers
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Indeed, the dubitable claim of a lack of similarity between Willy and Harry is clearly null and void - one merely need examine the spellings of said names!
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
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Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom.
Libertas Praestantissimum
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Please spell everything out for me in clear, unmistakeable black and white. Don't ask me to think.
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The witch cast/put a spell on the prince and he turned into a frog.
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I really enjoy the poetry found in a word, in it's sound, spelling and history of meaning no matter what language ... thank you Denise for your beautiful images this morning and also to Kristin's accent tingeing her "rrrs" suggesting foreign lands and other stories ...
Terroir - French Word-A-Day
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I just used the spellcheck on my computer - 805 words misspelt out of 1,200.
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The costume concept for the entire program consisted of leotards and unitards, unadorned and brightly colored or adorned in various ways that spelled economy but not always high ingenuity.
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At this point, I have a staggering amount of data, and it's been invaluable in dispelling myth, particularly in assisting me to name and claim classism and racism as it permeates my family culture.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The prevalence of competitions in general shows the American need to be better than anyone else at something, whether it is selling cars or memorizing state capitals or knowing how to spell dvandva.
A Conversation with Myla Goldberg about Wickett's Remedy
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A glass vitrine of bullets spells out the ranks of the Sudanese army.
The Museum of Unexploded Bombs « Squares of Wheat
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I could easily imagine Aaron Spelling bumping into Hackman at the Playboy Club and badgering him into a quick walk-on.
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Clearly a name that is easy to spell backwards or forwards is an advantage if spelling isn't your thing.
The Sun
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Most long duration Damage and Heal over time spells have the bonus divided amongst every tick.
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I was a prepubescent, and probably one of those stupid kids who always seem to come from bad homes; the ones who think the teacher's going to hit them, and can't even spell their own names.
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Another benefit is that any spell can be un-cast, any effect can be undone.
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Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
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Our comfort is this: We will live out our lives enchanted by Claire, her spell never broken.
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The three deaf brothers in the family all used fingerspelling extensively (of English). They also used a dialect of ASL and some Manually Coded English as well.
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One could expect that Junior's presence will become a liability once he spells out his plan.
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It's wonderful to watch her now going through things phonetically learning how to spell things.
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But will this show be a spellbinding watch?
The Sun
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The design that spells a plan now has a lot of, wait to like by the child like animal of giraffe, small coati , plane, train, cartoon.
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A sensible spelling reform as opposed to revolution of English spelling would eliminate the unpredictable pronunciations and the homographic heterophones, making English spellng as usable as French spelling.
Today’s “Today” | Linguism
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That was, by the way and a propos of nothing, one of the few words that I had difficulty in spelling as a child.
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The spelling is only half the problem - Must we now say "pointe" speaking through our nose with a subtle hint of a "w"’ when referring to the new complex.
North Pointe Development Under Study at cvillenews.com
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Did I spell your name right? Rightly cannot be used like this. In formal language correctly is used:Is your name spelled correctly?
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They suggest that their evidence based refutations of erroneous beliefs commonly expressed by immunisation defaulters are useful in dispelling their concerns.
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The room was spellbound as the two spoke in a language understood by no one.
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It follows the Eaglegate building's unsuccessful spell on the lettings market as offices.
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The name perlite (also spelled pearlite) comes from the French word perle which means pearl, in reference to the "pearly" luster of classic perlite.
Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
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She's about as defenceless as a mamba, thought Alma, and yet she couldn't break the spell.
LOST CHILDREN
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Spellbound inmates have been cheering every dialogue and applauding the histrionic skills of actors.
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Today he wanted me to spell "zephyr" and see how many points that would be on a triple-word.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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WASHINGTON - Frank Neuhauser, who in 1925 won the first U.S. national spelling bee with the word "gladiolus," has died.
Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also
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Most long duration Damage and Heal over time spells have the bonus divided amongst every tick.
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You are one of life's enjoyers, determined to get the most you can out of your brief spell on Earth.
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English spelling is difficult because syllable sounds change with the variation of stress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some writers can spell and punctuate; some can't. Some writers will reveal a lifetime of experience; some will display a youthful naivety.
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She knows how to spell "conniption," too, and that's what earned the Charleston Middle School seventh-grader the title at the Regional Spelling Bee.
Undefined
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There's no new insight into the cause of the failure of the port wing, but Oberg spells out just why some analysts think it's plausible that the crew lived through the minute or so after the shuttle started to yaw to port.
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Would the blandishing enchanter still weave his spells around me, or should I burst them all and turn away in coldness!
Master Humphrey's Clock
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He still has no feeling in his left arm, has lost a stone in weight, has trouble with his balance, is susceptible to headaches, dizzy spells and tingles down his spine, arms and legs.
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When we went inside, only one thing caught our eye, the caramel millefleur (probably spelled wrong … my bad).
TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
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He held an audience of 16-year-olds spellbound, and afterwards stayed up with us until the small hours telling stories.
The Sun
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Typing or spelling has never been my schtick.
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The word, which means "of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing," is spelled "demotic" - without the "k.
Undefined
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Some in the industry even predicted that e-commerce would spell the death of malls.
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Along with the spells, charms, incantations, and potion recipes, there were manuals, instructions, factoids, magical messages, and even stories.
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Lirael took a half step forward to guard Sam while he completed the spell.
ABHORSEN
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Would you like me to spellcheck your posts for the next couple of days?
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The coalminer's son was formally appointed yesterday after a temporary sixmonth spell in charge.
The Sun
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Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"—which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart," as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.
Servants To Masters
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The propriety of his magical lady's injunction not to read can only be equalled by his candid acknowledgment of his independence of the trammels of spelling, although, to use his own elegant phrase, "'twas his neckverse at
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
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Cloudy, further spells of sleet or snow in central and northern areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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She will be pitted against the country's best young spellers when she stars on Hard Spell at the end of the month.
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Homeowners 'insurance: Unless specifically spelled out in the will, the life tenant is responsible only for insuring his or her interest, while the remainderman has the obligation to insure the rest.
Life estates are a complex area of law
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It is a particular problem when the country experiences a prolonged spell of hot dry weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some words are more difficult to spell than others.
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The pool was usually filled with swimmers, spellbound by the cool shower that tamed the summer sun.
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Earlier this week, someone at the NZ Herald must have hit the wrong buttons when spellchecking this story.
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I never have to spell out my first name.
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When she rocks in its cradle the babe the young parents intrust to her heed; when she calls the kine to the milking, the chicks to their corn; when she but flits through my room to renew the flowers on the stand, or range in neat order the books that I read, no spell on her fancy could lead her a step from the range of her provident cares!
A Strange Story — Volume 07
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Before that thought could paralyze her, Lirael reached out and broke the locking-spell on the door.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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But they are not as big a turn-off as bad punctuation and spelling.
Times, Sunday Times
