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Example sentences for "spell"

Lexicographically close words:
speketh; speking; spekyng; spel; speling; spellbound; spelled; speller; spellers; spelling
  1. Soon as the spell was broken, and his soul Delivered from its darkness, in a moment, Thou didst regain thine empire o'er his heart.

  2. My word must not be falsified; but, at the sight of the ring of recognition the spell shall cease.

  3. It is past, Whate'er the spell that bound me.

  4. Leif told them well, so that his hearers were held fast with the spell of wonder and then spurred to memories of their own.

  5. He would fain have left the room had he dared, but the spell of her masterful spirit held him.

  6. I am Biorn, and my father is King," he repeated to himself, the spell he had so often used when on the fells or the firths he had met fear.

  7. Three of something I think they are fleur-de-lys, which would spell Montgomery.

  8. More than once she felt herself almost completely succumbing to his spell and inclined to accept without reservation his own estimate of himself.

  9. The still repose of her manner contrasted strongly with her sister's vivacity and seemed from the first to cast a sort of spell over Mackinnon.

  10. In the concrete they may yet spell the very salvation of the railroad.

  11. She was still under the spell of the music, and saw nothing to resent in his cold gaze.

  12. Poor Denis seems to have cast a perfect spell over him.

  13. But once freed from the spell of the ocean, his mind reverted to the other interests that lay closer at hand.

  14. She seemed to grow afraid, too, of the spell that was befogging them, and sought rescue in a flippancy.

  15. What would labor do when the spell of consecration to the war was gone and the pride of war wages must go before a fall?

  16. Miss Gabus played Mrs. Grundy all morning and at the noon hour made a noble effort to rescue Mamise from any opportunity to cast an evil spell over poor Mr. Davidge.

  17. Marie Louise was humiliated to find that she really did not know how to spell some of the simplest words.

  18. She has cast a spell over him somehow, since the night he dined with her alone, and he can't resist it.

  19. The silence bred nerves, till a chorus of jackals howling in an adjacent paddy field would break the spell and come as a welcome relief.

  20. Time had rather enhanced than lessened the spell of this wonderful young creature.

  21. She remained motionless for minutes in the same attitude, as if she knew that she was posing to an artist; but Hermon gazed at her as if spell bound till the fettered Gaul again called her name.

  22. Mothers wanted protection for their children against the evil eye; wives a spell against the jealousy of their husbands; warriors talismans to secure them from harm in battle.

  23. A new woman arrived, who was provided with a more powerful spell than I could possess for securing the Shah’s love, and she destroyed my power.

  24. Hath love's warm, fearful, thrilling touch, no spell To waken sense in ye?

  25. She was still under the spell when after the benediction Miss Betty asked, with a certain timidity, if she had liked the sermon.

  26. You only begin to spell a word when he guesses what you want to say," Maurice added.

  27. Now, if he were really a magician, I might think he had broken the spell on the ring we found in the Gilpin house," she said to herself.

  28. Rosalind longed to ask at least a dozen questions, but it is dampening to one's ardor to have to spell every word, and she only nodded and smiled in her turn as she handed back the tablet.

  29. The subtle stings misfortune flings Can give me little pain When my narcotic spell has wrought This quiet in my brain: When I can waste the past in taste So luscious and so ripe That like an elf I hug myself; And so I smoke my pipe.

  30. My Lion Queen" I called her--when a spell of mine occurred She'd come in a den of feelings and quell them with a word.

  31. Does she remember the spell they once Wrought in the past a few short months?

  32. The literature of the conciliar period, covering the first half of the fifteenth century, does not succeed in casting off the spell of the papal idea, but aims to check and control its dangers to the public welfare.

  33. To break the spell I would order things I didn't want, just to get her out of the way for a moment or so while I snatched a few unwatched bites.

  34. Two impetuous young Southerners' fall under the spell of "The Blight's" charms and she learns what a large part jealousy and pistols have in the love making of the mountaineers.

  35. I'm for a spell before we start; there's nothing like a spell to steady your nerve.

  36. The cheek of him, spoiling our spell with that cursed row!

  37. The Skipper he forgot the wrack, Forgot the waves a-rollin', For she had put the witchy spell On Skipper Dennis Nolan.

  38. The spell of her was like a ravishing fire in his heart.

  39. Nolan stared blankly for a moment, then aroused himself furiously from the strange spell that had enthralled his mind since first he had looked at the face of the girl lashed to the cross-trees.

  40. Who did they figger as put the spell on to me?

  41. Black Dennis Nolan looked at her, straight into her sea-eyes, and felt the bitter-sweet spell of them again to the very depths of his being.

  42. Every one is going home to-morrow, so perhaps the spell will be broken.

  43. However, they were here now for a spell of pure enjoyment, not to bother their heads with the future.

  44. The magic spell that had held the audience was over.

  45. A fairy mist will change the spell From death to sleep.

  46. She could have cast some sort of hypnotic spell over us, I suppose.

  47. Pauline whispered, breaking the spell that was upon Judy.

  48. She swooped in and seemed to cast an evil spell over the audience.

  49. I was under the spell of the play and didn't see her leave.

  50. A long spell of enforced abstinence, such as this, may effect wonders.

  51. A spell of bright weather such as this, though, will soon drive it away.

  52. The attache told me that England was believed to be behind this boycott for commercial purposes, and that as Austria manufactured a great deal expressly for the Turkish market a prolonged boycott must spell ruin.

  53. They feared that Bulgaria could not stand against the combined forces, and the victory of Greek and Serb would spell ruin for Albania.

  54. I guess, if I were you, I'd let her wait a spell before I asked her forgiveness.

  55. You won't need glasses, I should say now, for a spell of years!

  56. God sometimes uses very humble means with which to break the spell of silence which Satan so often weaves around Christians; it was as if they had all suddenly awakened to a sense of their privileges.

  57. Such will understand the spell under which his congregation sat even after the prayer and hymn had died into silence.

  58. I might just not have been taught to spell "Raggett".

  59. It seemed like a spell that she knew not how to break.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; affection; alchemy; alternate; argue; attack; augur; beat; beguile; bespeak; betoken; bewitch; bit; bout; break; breath; breathe; breather; captivate; chance; charm; circle; circuit; connote; course; cover; curse; cycle; day; denote; diastole; displace; distance; divination; divine; double; duration; enchant; enchantment; enlist; enrapture; enthrall; entrance; exorcism; express; fascinate; fetishism; fit; folklore; ghost; glamour; halt; hint; hoodoo; hour; hypnotize; imply; import; indicate; infatuate; instant; intend; interlude; intermission; interval; intrigue; jinx; juncture; lore; lull; magic; mean; mesmerize; minute; moment; necromancy; opportunity; paroxysm; patch; pause; period; place; point; prefigure; pulse; recess; refer; relief; relieve; replace; represent; respite; rest; revolution; rotate; rotation; round; rune; say; season; seizure; series; siege; signify; snap; space; span; spasm; spell; spurt; stage; stay; streak; stretch; sub; succeed; suggest; supersede; supplant; surcease; suspension; syllable; symbolize; systole; tenure; term; thaumaturgy; thesis; theurgy; token; tour; tradition; transport; turn; typify; understudy; vamp; voodoo; weird; whack; wheel; while; witch; witchcraft; witchery; wizardry