spelling contest

Example Sentences

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A spelling bee is a spelling contest where players take turns spelling words.

From NewsForKids.net • May 15, 2024

“I did not enter the spelling contest for personal glory,” Ms. Bolden, the daughter of a mail carrier, told a reporter from The New York Times as she stepped from the stage.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

In 1992, he became a national laughing-stock after judging a spelling contest at Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey.

From BBC • May 9, 2019

The two had their own spelling contest – and it turned out as you might imagine:

From Golf Digest • Aug. 30, 2016

“I loss spelling contest my school. I come in second.”

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na