How to Use spelling in a Sentence

spelling

noun

• The words “made” and “maid” sound alike but have different spellings.
• The wrong spelling of the name should have been a flag.
  — Teresa Dixon Murray, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The website will play a word, and Koya will type in the spelling.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2022
• For now, the spelling whiz wants to relax for the rest of the summer.
  — Shahzeb Ahmed, charlotteobserver, 1 June 2017
• The brief had been full of spelling errors and was in no way ready to be viewed.
  — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• In March, Ukraine asked the world to practice its spelling.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2022
• Some of the same strategies work for all these spelling games.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
• Top of the Six’s, it was called (and yes, the spelling was mangled that way on the signage and menus).
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2021
• First, double-check the spelling used to search your name.
  — Mikhayla Dunaj, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2020
• The book also changed the spelling of Sokolov’s first name from Lali to Lale; the movie has changed it back.
  — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• The spelling Kiev, meanwhile, is from the Russian name for it, Киев.
  — James Harbeck, The Week, 27 Mar. 2022
• Watch them battle it out for the worst spelling, above.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 3 Apr. 2018
• Keep an eye out for strange spelling and anything weird in the URL.
  — Diya Chacko, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
• Put your spelling skills to the test with these seven words from this year’s bee.
  — Staff Report, courant.com, 31 May 2018
• But the spelling — when that’s the focus of the contest — pretty much doomed it as a choice.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
• Yet the spelling, even then, was mainly crack in the English style.
  — James Harbeck, The Week, 17 Mar. 2022
• Lizzy Grant, where she wasn’t fully formed -- even down to the spelling of her name.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
• First, the men must compete in math and spelling challenges.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2020
• This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the name of the town.
  — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• In fact, each of my books has pages of notes at the back spelling out these sorts of connections.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The coup de grace is a singing and dancing omelette — the British spelling seems apt — flanked by singing and dancing eggs.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
• What should have the final word in this spelling debate?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• The two men used the first letter of each of their last names to create the unique spelling of the company moniker.
  — Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2021
• This was the first county spelling bee held in person since 2019.
  — Luis Cruz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
• Helm later changed the spelling of his first name to Levon.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 10 Apr. 2022
• This year’s was the first county spelling bee held in person since 2019.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Then Bressler Levine found a third-grade report card with the correct spelling.
  — Kyra Gurney, miamiherald, 23 Jan. 2018
• For the most part, his spelling didn’t differ too much from ours today.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 7 Dec. 2019
• Hanukkah is the preferred spelling, but it can also be spelled Chanukah or Chanukkah.
  — CNN, 8 Dec. 2021
• The spelling of Yazmin Brown's first name has been corrected.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 2 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024