Use "spend" in a sentence

1. I might have spent it a little more slowly without her, but you know those sandals you bought me in Zharvai?"

2. If you have spent any time at a

3. He kept pining away for a blond girl he spent only one sleep with who was only passing thru Sinbara didn't he? The one he met just before Ava

4. Micah’s dad spent a lot of the day sitting watching the old “bunny ears TV” he got from the attic

5. This cover will also take care of pre as well as post-hospitalisation expenses like money spent on buying medicines and conducting medical tests

6. She had spent most of a mortal lifetime in what is officially the planet's largest city

7. Many evenings have been happily spent by most of us in sharing such jokes with other elders of the locality or club

8. But was he? The man beside her now had been with her more decades than she had spent years with Kulai

9. We have watched our mother and mother-in-law when they spent time with our kids and saw how gently they enfolded our children with their wisdom and love and tenderness

10. He and Leila had spent countless precious moments shagging on the carpet, screwing on the table, and fooling around in the den

11. She could be home in a couple weeks from there with only another few irons spent

12. My will power in firm control, I had debated whether a long bath or a stimulating shower would be the best course of action so, my priority being to use up time, I opted for the former; taking a book with me, I had spent an hour in the bath up to my ears in hot water and soap bubbles

13. He spent nearly twenty-four hours

14. My dad was always active in the village I grew up in and I spent a lot of my younger years shadowing him as he took tickets at various gates or rushed around using me as a ‘gofer’ … thank goodness I wasn’t a shy child, that would have been hell!

15. Now he laid down an iron and spent a good part of the day in one every year or two

16. table and cleared away the Marchese’s spent tumbler

17. “The soap that crossed America on quality alone,” and it’s true, the Bronners have never spent a penny on advertising or marketing their soaps, but have relied solely on word of mouth and unsolicited articles for their word to be spread

18. All thru the time I spent with Ava she kicked him around as arrogant and selfish

19. He spent an hour selecting the right timbers to block in the crate exactly

20. On top of that, I spent most of yesterday keeping within reach of the phone and, on the two occasions I had to go out of earshot into the garden to deal with the washing, I had checked to see if anyone had called while I was out there as soon as I got back inside … but Stephen didn’t call

21. The sign of the saddle didn't really mean anything more than Brazilians were welcome, and the way they spent money, they were welcome in most public houses

22. She spent all her money on speed and sexy clothing, Ava is a much better person

23. spent her best years looking after a sot of a brother and two inevitably ailing parents

24. He spent most of Nightday and all of Dawnsleep with her and doostEr couldn't blame him

25. His sister never married – her fiancé was killed in the war, I believe – and she spent her life looking after their parents

26. their exhausted relatives have lost all hope, having spent all family savings

27. spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse

28. "I thought they had spent so much money that they had melted the whole thing down

29. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather

30. Even without the missing years, she'd spent more of her life on Gordon's Lamp than at Sol, a good part of it here in this null point and most of her last eight years in this base

31. They had spent the day going over the discoveries Ava made in the last century and a half and they were impressive

32. Before, I had not spent enough time with God to equip me

33. Since she knew the address, she decided to go play in one of Ava's virtual rooms, one they'd recently spent time in together

34. Ava spent most of her time concentrating on the Heavenly Mother

35. The time I spent with Sam was worth it as long as I was not grounded

36. "How could you know this?" His mother had raised him and his sister almost alone while his father spent time in and out of prison

37. His neighbours spent weeks and then months cajoling him into living,

38. up on business, spent hours writing hopeless paeans to her memory, and slowly the

39. I’m pretty sure Molly didn’t miss a trick … wouldn’t surprise me if she knew perfectly well where her son spent most of the night … but she was discretion itself

40. The next three hours are the longest and most difficult hours I have spent since Dorothy died all those years ago

41. One of those hours had to be spent in preparation for the upcoming encounter

42. having spent so many days alone

43. Why do they open the shop, then? Later, I spent some time with Alice and our cousin Niki but I couldn't avoid the usual boredom: These two are married with children, respectable persons in society; they don't even bother to conceal their contempt for me

44. The night was long and we were young and this was an occasion for a special bottle or two, for the saved and revered whisky, a drink that I had slowly grown accustomed to during my residence, and one that always left me feeling as though I had spent the night with my head next to a camel’s rump

45. He spent those first seconds of knowing failure listening to the blood pump like crashing surf in his ears and waiting for the inevitable call from Horcheese in the cockpit

46. the Lord's money is being spent

47. Yet again Marwan Tayeh, this briefly arcing flare, fell back to earth, spent and blackened

48. Since they had all seen all of this, they only spent an hour formalizing what they'd just heard into a synopsis

49. In the meantime, she still works as a chamber maid in the Hotel “Blue Rose” in Vouliagmeni, while my parents have undertaken the bringing up and support of her two sons – which means at least half of my father's pension is spent on the needs of Alice and her children

50. Jordo said, "I went and spent a few minutes going over the specs of the NS191s with one of your cherries…

51. I spent some time running this most recent conversation through in my head

52. As for the rest, the week in Amarynthos has proved to be really boring, since we've spent most of our time playing cards or chatting with the old crocks

53. They say that after I came round I spent two days gripped in the cold sweat of delirium, sleeping fitfully in between rabidly incoherent monologues and pathetic calls for my mother

54. Doc Ibora spent the better part of a two days checking out every thread of the Chief's nervous system for damage

55. He is of European origin but he has spent many years in Tibet; for many years now, he has been travelling all over the world teaching Tibetan Buddhism

56. I continued to shout and flame in my head, but the venom was spent

57. Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night

58. I spent hours trying to recall the faces and names of the taken, wondering which of the select band might be behind those other doors

59. He spent much of his time playing again, mostly training in his adventure parks, but he often stopped and reviewed all his alerts

60. All those years spent watching others, all those years of anonymity in the crowd, came back to haunt me

61. Of all the nights that I had spent sleeping under the English sky, this was, I think, the most relaxing

62. He knew it because he spent his youth and a good portion of adulthood there working in the Sao Luis aerospace industry

63. To me they were just names, but Menachem had spent two years reporting on events in England prior to being taken hostage and he visited many of the cities and towns in this part of the country during that time

64. He spent those three years talking to each of them, trying to mold their position into something that would make Herndon agree to join them within a boundary

65. After an age, after all possibility of life seemed to be spent, everything turned to silence

66. The woman he spent three decades with was copied from this electronic mind that inhabited the boulder where their starship was parked

67. Actually, he was sure it was too late by the end of the first dark she spent in that house but was determined to give it due diligence and go up there after it, since he had weeks with the boat and no better plan

68. Ava had been known to stay in bed with her toes curled the day after a sleep they spent together, a day he would go to the foundry

69. "Of the mortal lifetime I've spent on this planet, you were one of the best parts

70. Son spent the night drinking with the lord of the land in celebration until

71. This statement is made by Paul, who suffered lashes at the hands of the Jews 5 times, 3 times he was beaten with rods, once pelted with stones, shipwrecked 3 times, spent a day and a night in the open sea, had been constantly on the move, had been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from his fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger in the sea, in danger from false believers, had gone without sleep, had known hunger and thirst – often going without food, and has been cold and naked

72. I spent two years in a lab there, getting the Hotblood out of me

73. She nested with both of them and had sleeping hours that were irregular enough that she spent time with both of them

74. ’ Kara replied, ‘Joris told me he’d spent some time at the equivalent place here one time and been amazed to find that they were virtually identical

75. much of your daily life is spent in a life-‐stalling resistance, once

76. His neighbours spent weeks and then months cajoling him into living, inviting him to their homes, and sometimes, when the bitter tears really did fall, they even left him alone

77. He gave up on business, spent hours writing hopeless paeans to her memory, and slowly the light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous men folk, ceased to burn for him

78. No family … an only child, her parents had died some years before … few friends of the social variety because over the past fifteen odd years what time she’d had to spare had been spent with Joris and other people had just stopped including her in

79. He started to speak, but found words hard to form having spent so many days alone

80. Okhai Ojeikere spent the Sixties and Seventies documenting the hairstyles of the women he encountered in his native Nigeria

81. Whew… spent on material things

82. The children spent a lazy and a leisurely holiday at the

83. This, combined with Iain’s quite understandable jitteriness as he faced leaving not only the life he knew but also the world he had spent his life on, made for some uncomfortable silences and more than one irritable spat

84. of his spent muscles with the tips

85. She spent weeks with that trying to make some sense of it

86. Even though she wasn't supposed to be here, the time she spent on the avatar had taken away from time she could have spent automating this environment, so she had to maintain it now, as well as get some of that automation in place

87. I found it while ferreting around in the ruins of a castle stronghold in the north of Wales where she was imprisoned for some time before being transferred to Wight where she spent the last years of her life

88. the noise of sad relief, having spent a day

89. We spent almost as much time in Lastriss as we have out here so far

90. Joe and Fred spent the next hour erecting the tent

91. We were half afraid that coming across might affect your mind … you’d been very young when your mother ran away with you and you had spent your formative years on Earth

92. ’ He said evasively, ‘By the coast, you may have memories of the sea and I’m pretty sure that garden you recall was there … you spent a lot of time in the garden from what I was told

93. They spent the next two hours in riotous laughter seriously mocking the actors and making like the ‘bugs’

94. “I spent six months at an Artic Station,” he began to explain, “we were snowed in for 8 weeks

95. After several hours they fell asleep in each other’s arms, totally spent

96. That was a good time we spent with Fred

97. Fortunately the kaht arrives at our destination before Berndt can reply and the next few minutes are spent hurriedly getting the baggage and ourselves out of the kaht before it disappears again

98. She had spent her whole life being the quiet little woman, letting life pass her by

99. The flowers weren't very dry yet so you spent a lot of time stuffing a lot of area into your mouth, but when you got the whole thing in it was just a morsel

100. ‘Have you spent time across?’