spell out

• “To be comprehensive, a new negotiating mandate needs to spell out actions that will provide Parties to the UN Framework”

  Speech: High-Level Event on Climate Change

• “Laurie Oakes: [Interrupts] Well, let me - just let me ask you this: he said that the Defence White Paper failed to spell out whether the Government sees the growth of China's military capabilities as natural and legitimate or something we should regard as a threat and for which we should plan.”

  Foreign Minister Stephen Smith: Interview with Laurie Oakes, Channel 9

• “To weave your spell out of commonplace events and brew a love-potion from every-day materials is high art.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

• “He needed no check list to spell out the desirability of destroying enemy tanks at long range; maintaining the obstacle intact as long as possible; compelling the enemy infantry to dismount from their vehicles as soon as possible; and reserving his own fire to short range from defiladed positions.”

  First Clash

• “They were arranged to spell out my bonny sweet lass.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dragon Warrior

• “Who affixes glorious names to acts of Congress—with words whose initial capital letters spell out a hard-selling acronym?”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Also meshing with the steakhouse-like décor are carefully constructed white patterns that spell out New York, as well as the hundred or so flat-screen high-definition televisions covering bar and dining room walls.”

  Simon & Schuster: One Season

• “You have to unscramble the letters to spell out baby-related words.”

  Simon & Schuster: You’ll Lose the Baby Weight

• “The king's chaplains and clerks, with their knowledge of civil and canon law, able to spell out the old customaries, take the place of grim warriors.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “They had hooked up when they accidentally tripped a lust spell out near Mount Rainier, and that was all it took for the two of them to start hitting the sheets.”

  Changeling

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