Synonym: charm, fascination, period, shift, stretch, time, trance. Similar words: compelling, compel, well, yell, bell, cell, shell, sell. Meaning: [spel] n. 1. a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation 2. a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) 3. a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition 4. a verbal formula believed to have magical force. v. 1. orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of 2. indicate or signify 3. write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) 4. relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn 5. place under a spell 6. take turns working.
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151. Look at the Morse code chart and, using a torch, try to spell out your name.
152. The study will follow the reading progress of both deaf and hearing children in the light of their ability to sign and finger spell.
153. I feared my own words might break the spell of normalcy.
154. They spell the end of the game as we know it.
155. I fell under his freezing spell, obeying all his commands without thinking.
156. The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist.
157. It's a spell, you see, the mermaid has the power to cast spells.
158. The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
159. In addition, a wintry spell before the Cesarewitch was prompting our runners to start donning their winter coats before they set off.
160. But Alton restricted the opposition to four points in that opening spell and then took control to score four good tries themselves.
161. Ironside had a seven-match loan spell at Scarborough before the transfer deadline.
162. With each warm spell tundra and forest edges have moved north, only to be forced south again during cooler spells.
163. This changeless spell brought an acute sense of temporariness and the feeling of inevitability fading with the dusk.
164. We pull on our coats with bleary yanks as the alcohol works its universal spell, and bump out the door.
164. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
165. After a spell at Tie Rack, she found her own niche in socks.
166. They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November.
167. Ironside's one-month loan spell will be completed after the home match against play-off outsiders Gillingham.
168. A spelling bee is a competition in which people try to correctly spell words.
169. Some of these packages include excellent typographic extras, like a spell checker or thesaurus.
170. He issued a passionate plea to Labour and the Conservatives to spell out what they would do in a hung Parliament.
171. Thinking, maybe, that it would break the monotony, the tedious spell of the highway.
172. There was much subsequent controversy about who invented the word and how to spell its derivatives.
173. A test as simple as a Detect Magic spell will show some stronger focus of magic above the ceiling of this chamber.
174. It was as if Polly had cast a magic spell.
175. Such crops occur after a dry spell or insect attack and happen only once.
176. After a brief spell in the newly created Ministry of Labour he returned to the Home Office in 1919.
177. Staff here say that would spell disaster for hundreds of alcoholics.
178. A simple, maddeningly repetitious vibration, it pulsed out from the crystal[Sentencedict.com], and hypnotized all who came within its spell.
179. Robyn waited for him to break the spell of this wonderful, strangely companionable silence.
180. It is when she feels compassion, rather than revulsion, for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks.