Sentence examples for national spelling from inspiring English sources

8 P.M. (ABC) 2008 SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE Can you spell serrefine?

Aged 11, he went to Washington to compete in the national spelling contest.

"We had no clue from the national spelling bee that it existed," Mrs. Goldstein recalled.

It is everything sports, all the time — from the National Football League to the national spelling bee.

The sleepy upper house, which is elected by members of provincial assemblies, usually attracts outsiders' attention just once a year, when it hosts the national spelling contest.

In 2009, he went to Cheyenne, Wyo., and won the national spelling bee championship sponsored by the AARP, an event for spellers over 50.

And Kavya Shivashankar's brilliant spelling of "laodicean" to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

If anyone ever needed proof that English spelling is baffling, complex, or even backward, the Scripps National Spelling bee is it.

Barry Poznick, an executive producer who with John Stevens oversees the show's production, notes that the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been regularly shown on national television.

When he was eleven, he won the state spelling championship and went to Washington to compete in the National Spelling Bee.

On Thursday night, 12-year-old Ananya Vinay won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling the word "marocain".