Sentence examples for given the spelling from inspiring English sources

(Police had earlier given the spelling of the teen's name as Tyree). .

Given the native spelling, and your newspaper's inclination to follow British practice, might I suggest that "arsehole" would have been a better and, to these ears, more euphonious rendering? Inexplicably, your style guide is silent on this particular point of usage.Jakob WhitfieldLondon.

McCool was given the shortest spell of the frontline bowlers in the second innings as the fast bowlers again made early inroads.

Had he dictated his treatise or, given the number of spelling mistakes and off-centered pages, typed the whole thing himself?

Given the regularity of spelling to sound correspondence in Italian, it is conceivable that stress assignment can be computed sub-lexically in this language.

The colors seem remarkable, given the recent cold spell.

But given the existence of spell-checkers (the writing equivalent of frozen puff pastry dough), the number of errors is surprising.

Such patients only account for one in 256 of all hospital bed days, or 0.4% of the 47.3m total, but the financial cost is considerable as each bed costs the NHS an average of £400 a day to staff and given the condition each spell in hospital because lasts an average of 22 to 23 days.

This article was amended on 3 August 2011 to give the correct spelling of Trudo Lemmens.

This article was amended on 3 October 2014 to give the correct spelling of Charan Ranganath.

This article was amended on 31 July 2012 to give the correct spelling of Maxim Kontsevich.