Sentence examples for spelled to from inspiring English sources

A state judge in Alaska on Friday rejected claims by Joe Miller, the Republican Senate candidate in last month's election, that write-in votes cast for Senator Lisa Murkowski had to be perfectly spelled to be counted.

The play, whose title has been spelled to conform to the First Folio text, with which Ms. Shipman is playing a few tricks of her own, is on a double bill this year with "The Rivals," by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

A gang of dull and hoary pirates piously setting themselves the task of disciplining and purifying a kitten that they think they've caught filching a chop!" Margaret Canby's tale had been spelled to Helen perhaps three years before, and lay dormant in her prodigiously retentive memory; she was entirely oblivious of reproducing phrases not her own.

We hear of his early years in the Bronx, when he defused reactions to his Jewishness by going along when his name was spelled to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club anthem; of his early years on the force, when he refused to shake down citizens or sleep on the job; of his later career, when he made at least one spectacular arrest based on a hunch.

It's called "burying the lead" (or "lede", as its sometimes spelled, to avoid confusion with the heavy metal).

I "de-pledged" a sorority and found community in WIL (Women's Issues League) meetings where we actually discussed how women (womyn?) should be spelled to avoid referring to ourselves by reference to men.

We have ceded mathematical skills to calculators, and spelling to spelling checkers.

"No one has to learn to spell to talk, right?" he has said.

"Hard to spell, harder to pay for".

In addition, interlingual homographs and English control words all had consistent English spelling-to-sound mappings.

Unlike Italian, the spelling-to-sound mapping in English is inconsistent.