Sentence examples for strange spell from inspiring English sources

A strange spell, never explained, disables their usual social responses.

"The whole thing cast a strange spell over me," she said.

Frank and urgent, the narrative voice casts a strange spell over the reader.

7.58am BST Good news for DA Points, Brendan Jones and Kiradech Aphibarnrat: the preamble seems to be casting some sort of strange spell.

And, over all, they desperately wanted to show that the strange spell Tennessee had cast on them had, indeed, been snapped.

For some reason when they turn up at the dinner table, a strange spell is cast turning them into fussy, rude and demanding human beings who spill everything, which is deeply tiresome.

The prime movers in the mysterious Miike Snow (the strange spelling comes from controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike) are Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg aka Swedish production team Bloodshy & Avant (perhaps most notable for Britney's "Toxic"), and California-raised Andrew Wyatt. California-raised Andrew Wyatt

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban Hoban's difficult, brilliant novel is set in some distant future after a nuclear war and narrated by Riddley in a broken English whose strange spelling replicates his Kentish accent.

Most etymologists trace the strange spelling to the 15th century, when the Middle English term "counteroller," meaning someone who compares two scrolls to verify financial information, was erroneously combined with the French word "compte," meaning calculation, according to Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large for the Oxford English Dictionary.

And Hitchcock pulls off such an audacious boast about his adopted country by getting Haverstock to work with the refined English reporter Scott ffolliott (George Sanders) – whose surname's strange spelling stems from the fact his ancestor was beheaded by Henry VIII – just as savvy and smart as he.

It's a bildungsroman of a young American falling under the strange, potent spell of Picasso and his friends.