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Example sentences for "spent"

Lexicographically close words:
spending; spendings; spends; spendthrift; spendthrifts; spente; speos; sper; speranza; sperare
  1. Betty was a great favorite with her grandfather, and the two spent delightful hours together as the old gentleman showed Betty the many places of interest in the city.

  2. Suppose you tell us how you spent your Christmas day.

  3. Then where did you get that new five-dollar bill you spent yesterday?

  4. Not only that afternoon but several others were spent in arranging the details of the Hallowe'en party.

  5. Jack also had many to send, and as, except for the dress, Betty need make no secrets of hers, they spent the afternoon of the thirteenth together in the library, addressing the pretty missives.

  6. Straightforwardly Betty said: "We spent our Christmas day in New York, at the Plaza Hotel.

  7. Marple spent the whole of that night writing letters to what he called his tame guinea-pigs; and the very next day large bills bearing the solitary word "Olotutu" were posted up all over London till the public curiosity mounted to frenzy.

  8. I had spent Christmas with a married sister in Plymouth," she said, "and was returning to London by the express on the first of January.

  9. I think she spent only nine hours out of bed on the average.

  10. Our honeymoon will be spent in the delightful and unexploited retreat of the back kitchen.

  11. He, himself, had lately spent his time in plucking up courage to ask her to change it--and now he had been forestalled.

  12. She spent a great deal of time in the police-courts--the constant prosecution she suffered from, curtailed the last relics of her leisure.

  13. Most of them I had no recollection of, and the only one I could at all share was that of a morning we spent on the Ramsgate cliffs where Silverplume put his handkerchief over his face and fell asleep.

  14. Slyder, who was the most fashionable practitioner in the City, spent his entire time moving to and fro in an almost noiseless motor earnestly advising people to keep quiet.

  15. The next few days were spent by Mr. Spillikins almost entirely in the society of Norah.

  16. So mother spent her time sitting in her beetle jacket in the thousand-dollar suite, reading new novels in brilliant paper covers.

  17. In fact, he had spent six weeks there on a stop-over ticket of a round-the-world 635 dollar steamship pilgrimage; and he knew the whole country from Jehumbapore in Bhootal to Jehumbalabad in the Carnatic.

  18. In fact, he spent part of his time walking up and down under the trees with Philippa Furlong and discussing with her the proposal that he meant to make, together with such topics as marriage in general and his own unworthiness.

  19. In this congenial company Mr. Spillikins spent the next three days.

  20. Fareforth Furlong arrived home at the rectory he spent an hour or so in the deepest of deep thought in an armchair in his study.

  21. So they spent half the morning resting after their exciting adventures of the previous day, and reading the papers, some of which gave censored accounts of the event.

  22. Then, after a couple of minutes spent in chatting with the adventurers, who were about to sail forth on the wings of the morning, the O.

  23. The money hitherto spent on the Crown was to be devoted to a national system of elementary education--all children remaining at school till the age of 14--and to old-age pensions for all over 60.

  24. Cobbett spent two years in prison, and became M.

  25. Five days were spent in Kent before the peasant army marched on London.

  26. In Egypt and in India the Nationalist movements are directed to self-government, and are led by men who have, in most cases, spent some years at an English University, or have been trained at the English Bar.

  27. But I must not forget to tell you that I spent my birthday very differently from what I expected.

  28. Do not suppose however that I mean to assert that all days are spent thus.

  29. Your mournful news was always present to me in its sad reality--so this is the manner in which I have spent the last few days here.

  30. His young blood, whose unused vitality quivered in his clenched fists, his energy, which had not been spent on any work, groaned aloud.

  31. She heard him walking restlessly up and down his room during the night that followed the evening they had spent in the garden of Villa Piuma.

  32. He wanted to speak, had already opened his mouth to do so, to confess that he had spent more than he had had.

  33. Paul Schlieben could not remember ever having spent such a pleasant birthday as this one.

  34. She, who had formerly spent so many hours on the sofa, never found a moment's time to lie down the whole day; she slept all the more soundly at night as a result.

  35. Had they not once spent some perfectly delightful days on the coast near Spezia?

  36. So Sally Haggard usually spent most of the money earned by Reddin's stallion, 'The Pride of Undern.

  37. He had spent twenty years on it, and hoped to complete it in a few more, when the twigs that were to be the beak had grown sufficiently.

  38. He was in a margarine shop, and spent his days explaining that Margarine was as good as butter.

  39. If in that silent room upstairs he had come to the opposite decision; if he had that very day told Hazel what his love meant, by the irony of things she would have loved him and spent on him the hidden passion of her nature.

  40. I did so want the green and yellow tab cat--real china--and I spent every penny, but the wheel went on.

  41. He had spent most of his time since last Sunday tramping the hillsides.

  42. It had been a tender and nourishing chicken; the hours she had spent in gnawing through her rope had been well repaid.

  43. The exhibits must be there by ten; but Edward did not care in the least how many hours he spent there.

  44. Every morning he appeared, neutral-tinted, from the house, and cried upon an apparently empty landscape; every morning they meandered through the seven gates from the secret leafy purlieus where they spent the night.

  45. Hazel came out on the bare hill-top where gnarled may-trees, dropping spent blossom, were pink-tinted as if the colours of the sunsets they had known had run into their whiteness.

  46. Under such terrors there is nothing that extinguishes a man's courage so much as the review of an ill-spent life, or the reproaches of an evil conscience.

  47. Sam and Dunphy, at all events, spent a pleasant evening; at least, beyond question, Sam did.

  48. Wretched and unhappy, she spent the time in her solitude till the close of school, when the other children came into the cloak-room for their hats.

  49. Is it your faith, that one of their Abyssinian Majesties pleaded not being able to contribute towards sending for a new Abuna, because he had spent all his money at Venice in looking-glasses?

  50. The minister was once more in his arm chair, a little more broken, a little more fiercely uncompromising of aspect, but the one normal solution of such a spent and burdensome life: the solution of death, stood off from him.

  51. If he seemed calm as he lighted his pipe, it was a calm of spent emotion, and not the complacency of a man who awaits a tryst.

  52. The rest of the far-spent night Stuart stood guard outside the house.

  53. The summer had spent its heat and already there was a hint of autumn in the air, but Stuart had kept his promise.

  54. You see I spent most of last night thinking of it.

  55. He had spent these years drilling himself into a discipline which should enable him to think of Conscience as someone outside his personal world.

  56. After last night each hour spent here meant trusting under fire a resolution attained only in a moment of something like exaltation.

  57. She did not tell him how she spent sleepless nights devising plans to meet the grim insistence upon his banishment which she knew the morning would bring.

  58. She spent what little money she brought with her and after that it was the old story.

  59. Four years were spent in college, and two in law school.

  60. Three days Stuart Farquaharson spent waiting for an answer and while he waited his face became drawn, and the ugly doubt of the first hours settled into a certainty.

  61. There he had spent one summer vacation of his college life.

  62. Since then my father and I have spent our winters in the East, coming back home for the summers.

  63. He had spent the day in solitary confinement in his room, turning the situation round and round in his mind, lost in a perfect labyrinth of suggested remedies, none of which afforded him any outlet.

  64. He spent it in vigil by the side of his father, and watched the heavy passing of the hours, like grey solemn figures through the darkened room.

  65. He spent several pleasant hours picturing the scene in which he returned the letters to Robin.

  66. She was so spent when she reached the first cave that she literally could not walk another yard; she entered it, and sat down to rest.

  67. The rest of my time was spent unpacking my things, and I found, when the supper gong sounded, that I was still in my morning dress.

  68. He has spent his entire life in one county, and he is known all over the place.

  69. As the little man had absolutely forgotten that he had not spent the entire day with a party of schoolboys, he willingly agreed, and came in just after the supper was cleared away.

  70. She spent an afternoon of hard work, and returned to tea at St. Dorothy's, feeling tired and overexcited.

  71. Molly's holidays were spent in these rooms.

  72. He was welcomed by many families and spent an agreeable month, afterwards visiting Sunderland, still supporting himself by his violin playing.

  73. He also spent a good deal of his time in studying rare and expensive works on architecture--the use of which he could not elsewhere procure-- at the libraries of the Antiquarian Society and the British Museum.

  74. Next morning the Duke sent him a present of two guineas; but as the Captain would not allow him to receive such gifts while in his pay, Metcalf spent the money, with his permission, in giving a treat to the Duke's two body servants.

  75. When he was old enough to herd sheep he went to live with a relative, a shepherd like his father, and he spent most of his time with him in summer on the hill-side amidst the silence of nature.

  76. However, in spite of the time he spent sitting in the shop, worrying the inventor of the fractious light, Amberson found opportunity to worry himself about another matter of business.

  77. During this period he successfully avoided contact with Lucy's father, though Eugene came frequently to the house, and spent several evenings with Isabel and Fanny; and sometimes persuaded them and the Major to go for an afternoon's motoring.

  78. He descended to dinner upon the third urgent summons of a coloured butler, having spent two hours dressing--and rehearsing.

  79. After breakfasting in bed, George spent the next morning at his grandfather's and did not encounter his Aunt Fanny until lunch, when she seemed to be ready for him.

  80. Not getting remorseful about all the money he's spent at college, was he?

  81. The ineligible young men of the town (they were all ineligible) were unable to content themselves with the view that had so charmed Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster: they spent their time struggling to keep Miss Amberson's face turned toward them.

  82. De Larade spent all of his short life looking for animate beauty, and worshiping it when he found it.

  83. He himself spent long, wistful hours preparing the ox-wagon, the litter, and the horses that were to bear them away.

  84. He spent the time walking up and down and smoking cigarettes.

  85. Some years ago, I went with my wife and a friend for a summer outing to the Catskill Mountains, and spent a few days at the Mountain House.

  86. About the year 1868 I invented a new process for refining petroleum by the aid of superheated steam, and spent eighteen months in developing the process at Binghamton, N.

  87. But it is otherwise if done for reason, because the mere spending of the night together does not of itself prove vice; for a case can be given where a wife spent the night with men, and yet did not break her marriage vow.

  88. Signora Violante was received at the home of Signor Doctor Borri, where she dined that evening and spent the night.

  89. Their best and highest moments afield were spent in writing home, or possibly to the girl they left under the beeches or sycamores.

  90. Out of the magic and mystery of that summer, out of the warm nights full of stars and peace, and the days of sunlight spent with the beckoning fairies, Tom's soul unfolded another big quest.

  91. He sent the Old Mother Nature down and she spent years and years, but she did not know what to put on it.

  92. I have a lapful of his random letters from days spent down on the water front, and nights under the study lamp: DEAR OLD WASP: Morning mists over the lake, the Pelee coming up out of them.

  93. Does it not awaken in you something of the old days we spent so close to the soil?

  94. Accordingly I spent the late hours either on the water (the moonlight of Venice is famous), or in the splendid square which serves as a vast forecourt to the strange old basilica of Saint Mark.

  95. Indeed it was plain that the American name had ceased to have any application to them--I had seen this in the ten minutes I spent in the old woman's room.

  96. The temperature was very high; it was such a night as one would gladly have spent in the open air, and I was in no hurry to go to bed.

  97. And thus my father spent the greater part of his time, sometimes in prayer, sometimes in meditation, and sometimes in reading the Scriptures.

  98. Now and then he spent a whole day lying in his bed, oblivious of the most ordinary needs and occupations; the Pogoryeltseffs often invited him to their house, and he invariably promised to come, and as invariably forgot all about it.

  99. But that same evening he was in a worse humour than ever, and his night was spent in fantastic dreams and imaginings, which were anything but pleasant.

  100. It was said that he spent more than half the day at his toilet table; and that he was, in fact, made up of all sorts of little bits.

  101. He liked this provincial life, and while in our town he spent every farthing he had left in the world, continuing his reckless life as of old, galivanting about, and forming intimacies with half the ladies of Mordasoff.

  102. I called on him there once and spent a very pleasant hour.

  103. This morning, when you went away with the prince, Maria Alexandrovna spent a whole hour talking Zina over into marrying the old man!

  104. They took him into partnership and he travelled for them and spent some years in New York.

  105. He must have spent himself getting it to the plateau, however strong he is, and then found that he could do no more.

  106. He only cared to see Jenny, who spent some time with him.

  107. He and Michael often spent hours of these long evenings there together; and I would take out tea to them.

  108. In connection with the pilchard trade, he now visited Italy and often spent a month at a time in that country.

  109. His visit to England was spent at London, where he had renewed acquaintance with certain book collectors, seen and handled many precious things, and surprised and gratified himself to observe his own physical energies and enterprise.


  110. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquitted; beat; beaten; bleary; breathless; bushed; consumed; dead; devitalized; disabled; discharged; dissipated; done; drained; effete; empty; enervated; enfeebled; eroded; exhausted; expended; fagged; fatigued; finished; frazzled; gone; haggard; helpless; hired; impoverished; incapacitated; jaded; limp; liquidated; listless; lost; paid; pooped; prostrate; ragged; remitted; sapped; settled; spent; squandered; tired; used; wasted; weakened; whacked; worn


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    spent much; spent several; spent some; spent the; spent three