Sentence examples for given a spell from inspiring English sources

He was last year given a spell in solitary for illegally possessing two lemons.

The Togo international was also given a spell of compassionate leave by former club Manchester City in 2010 following a deadly gun attack on the national team bus at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Graeme Swann was given a spell with the old ball but the off-spinner looked somewhat out of sorts as he dragged an attempted arm ball horribly down the leg side for four byes.

A day after suffering a mild malaria attack, Lindwall gave a spell of four overs which netted him three wickets, bowling at speeds not seen in Australia since Larwood.

Children can even hear him give a spelling test.

Somehow he found sufficient energy to give a spell-binding master-class in midfield running, prompting comparisons with Dean Jones's saline-drip double-hundred in Madras in the annals of true-blue Australian sporting heroes.

The New Yorker, November 26, 1927 P. 19 Authors and Editors would be given a breathing spell on periodicals in order to turn out as much reading matter as do the advertising copy writers.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, November 26 , 1927P. 19 Authors and Editors would be given a breathing spell on periodicals in order to turn out as much reading matter as do the advertising copy writers.

Botham replied that he would find some rhythm if given a long spell and Brearley concurred.

"That summer term with Sebastian," he says, "it seemed as though I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood".

When he married Princess Margrethe in 1967, his first name was given a Danish spelling.