Sentence examples for spell about from inspiring English sources

After going uninsured for a spell, about a year ago I signed up for a catastrophic plan (found through the Freelancer's Union) that cost me about $100 a month.

During a subsequent Sahara-like dry spell about 9,000 years ago, the sand was blown around and shaped by the wind, meaning that the long, low hill we were climbing was a dune.

Was Anthony Hopkins's whispered spell about being "worthy", as he cast his defiant son out of Asgaard in the first Thor movie, a hint that this might come to pass?

If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may have been owing to the fact that Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fox News Channel talk-show host, was absent from the airwaves for a week, to have his appendix removed.

Whether cynically or not, they can't help but get wide-eyed and wavey-armed about games and cast a big spell about how awesome they could all be.

Matilda did not like that, and she most definitely did not like being spelled about.

And "Shakuntala" is about spells: about love and curses and delusion, and about the spell cast by aesthetic experiences, like Mr. Drance's artful staging.

There's a debate raging on the Radio 4 Facebook page – well, being Radio 4, it's more of a gentle simmer, with excellent grammar and spelling – about whether this week's Desert Island Discs, with Kathy Burke, is the best ever edition.