Spee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the coast of Uruguay, where the Graf Spee had been scuttled in 1939 to stop it falling into enemy hands.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023
Yes, J. Edgar Hoover’s Airedale Spee De Bozo is buried here, but Petey, the dog from the “Our Gang” movies, is not.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2019
Spee and Marx make Peter and Susan’s good-natured earnestness interesting, while Hamp leavens Edmund’s petulance with enough naïveté to make the character relatable.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2016
The club, it turned out, had voted to “welcome all genders” as it began recruiting members for the academic year, Matthew E. Lee, a Harvard senior and president of the Spee, confirmed in an email.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2015
When this same Spee protested so vehemently against the burning of witches, which his Church so zealously carried on, he published his writings, without his name, in a Protestant place.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
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