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Example sentences for "spent much"

  • He spent much of the afternoon and evening debating whether or not his dignity would permit him to go.

  • He spent much time in "primping" himself and the boys called him "the dude.

  • To escape the sun we spent much time in the shady ravine.

  • When not on duty we spent much of our time at the river, fishing, and swimming after the water had become warm enough.

  • I spent much of my time with the Indians, as I had done two winters previous at Cantonment Miller.

  • Despite his many duties, he spent much time in reading and in scientific investigation.

  • An exceptionally sociable and convivial man, he spent much of his time in visiting and gambling and tippling.

  • Spent much of the time until eve on my knees.

  • Conversed on holiness, spent much time in secret prayer.

  • Spent much of the day picking berries all alone with the Lord.

  • He spent much time in his library with his books and translations of the Scriptures, and did much writing and correspondence, his wife assisting him much.

  • He spent much time at the hospital nursing the sick, devoting himself to the most forbidding cases.

  • We spent much time in the Library, examining its ancient and singularly interesting MSS.

  • He spent much time in his library, where my mother might almost always be found, her seat near to him.

  • He spent much of his time poring over books.

  • In the autumn of his sixteenth year he went to live with his brother Lawrence on the Mount Vernon plantation, where he spent much of his time in surveying.

  • Having found Massasoit, he spent much of the winter in the wigwam kindly furnished him by the Indian chief.

  • He spent much time, both with tongue and pen, in answering these sophistries, and teaching the churches their duties.

  • He spent much time in writing and lecturing on temperance, both before and after the passage of the Prohibitory Amendment.

  • Without being a notable traveller, he spent much time in the chief intellectual centres of Europe, and in the United States, and numbered among his friends such men as Montalembert, De Tocqueville.

  • He spent much labour in cataloguing the records and state papers, and made a special study of the Domesday Book, preparing an explanation of its more obscure terms.

  • He spent much of his youth in Connaught;[381] but afterwards returning home, he founded his first monastic cell at a place called Seanross.

  • He spent much time in the investigation of that alarming disease--endeavoring to arrive at the best mode of treatment.

  • During the intervals of these public duties he spent much of his time in surveying.

  • He spent much of his time in reading classic authors and in corresponding with eminent men.

  • George Fox himself, as his custom was, spent much of his time of imprisonment writing letters and religious epistles.

  • We spent much of our time on the water in a little rowing boat.

  • My Hebridean nurse had often told me of Shony, a mysterious sea-god, and I know I spent much time in wasted adoration: a fearful worship, not unmixed with disappointment and some anger.

  • Retired from business, a married man, wealthy, devoted to horticulture, he spent much of his time in the fields in the outskirts of Limoges.

  • He spent much of his time at his toilet, and it was known that he wore a corset.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spent much" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bright green; cannot explain; dinner speeches; gave rise; guard them; has nothing; hundred leagues; international traffic; little space; negative evidence; one large octavo volume; open forest; pretty large; private library; saith another; shall build; spent much; spent several; spent some; spent the; spent three; that quarter; thus thought; various animals; wild land; will turn