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spelling bee
noun as in spelling competition
Example Sentences
Avant-garde recalls looking through the list of national spelling bee participants with her father.
Then, as now, the national spelling bee was more than a contest of words.
Preliminary rounds, typically held in the days leading up to the spelling bee finals, had instead been held virtually over the past several weeks.
It features a young girl at a spelling bee who is asked to spell “Hagan.”
In an ad called “Spelling Bee,” a young child spells “Pryor” as “O-B-A-M-A,” to which the judge says, “Close enough.”
Can Arvind Mahankali spell “knaidel” to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee?
Indian-American Arvind Mahankali just won the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Arvind Mahankali of Queens was not yet of kindergarden age when he chanced to see the National Spelling Bee finals on television.
There was a spelling-bee every Friday afternoon, for Sam the only endurable event of the school exercises.
Rosalie did not know that the teacher was to leave Tinkletown surreptitiously until after the spelling-bee.
This red delaine I wore to a spelling bee when I was about sixteen and I got a book for a prize for standing up next to last.
It had a good deal the look of a spelling-bee with a teacher who meant to stand no nonsense.
I have heard of a bee getting so far in his education as to become a "Spelling Bee."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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