spelling bee
Example Sentences
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It's significant because not so long ago, Black children would have faced a lot of obstacles just to compete in this spelling bee.
From Salon
When Mr. Ramsey was about 11, his teachers, who were nuns, entered him into a citywide spelling bee against other, all-white Catholic schools.
From New York Times
Shortly after being crowned the 2021 spelling bee champion, Avant-garde told CNN "it felt really good to win," because she had "been working on it for like two years."
From Salon
No one shined brighter this week than 14-year-old Avant-garde, who clinched the 2021 national spelling bee crown Thursday with one final word: “Murraya,” a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Natarajan has the photos to prove it: When he first competed in the Scripps spelling bee in 1983, he remembers only six contestants of Indian descent out of 137 students.
From New York Times
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