spelling bee
Example Sentences
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From BBC • May 28, 2026
A lot of them had excelled in school: We talked to a boy that had just won a spelling bee, for example.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle corrected a 12-year-old spelling bee contestant on camera, incorrectly instructing him to add the letter “e” onto the end of the word “potato.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
On the other side sits Ainsley, who would lose a grade-school spelling bee to a bag of hair extensions yet manages to get into college as a cheerleading squad walk-on.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
“Remember what your dad said to you about fear when you were in the spelling bee? Soheil, too? About how we should be scared, about how we can use that?”
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
