SPENT in a Sentence
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380 example sentences for SPENT, such as:
1. He spent his adult life in Canada.
2. He spent a pleasant afternoon reading.
3. She spent the afternoon pruning roses.
4. We spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
5. Too much time is spent on administration.
2. He spent a pleasant afternoon reading.
3. She spent the afternoon pruning roses.
4. We spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
5. Too much time is spent on administration.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SPENT
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spent
a. depleted of energy, force, or strength
a. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
2 Most Southerners were born with guns in their hands, and lives spent in hunting had made marksmen of them all.
3 So Charles Hamilton spent his wedding night in an armchair in the corner, not too unhappily, for he understood, or thought he understood, the modesty and delicacy of his bride.
4 Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
5 In fact, Mammy had spent her time deflating her conceit.
6 He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion, and wore clothes which were always the height of style and tailoring.
7 She spent so much time crouching in the cellar that the girls would have fared badly but for Mrs. Meade's stolid old Betsy.
8 But the idea of returning to that room where she had spent so many nightmare hours was repulsive to her.
9 They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
10 And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.
11 It would bring a little in Confederate money and that little would help her to save the hoarded greenbacks and gold in the Yankee's wallet until they had to be spent.
12 Pork would have taken shame to himself had he spent her money when there were unguarded hen coops along the road and smokehouses handy.
13 Scarlett had a thankful thought that Rhett had spent the last several months abroad and had only recently come back to Atlanta.
14 Frank had never before had a woman "take on" over him and he came to feel that the money had been well spent, after all.
15 Most of it went to Tara and she wrote interminable letters to Will Benteen telling him just how it should be spent.
Example Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
1 Too much time is spent on administration.
2 Bonington spent his entire adult life in France.
3 She spent most of her adult life in prison.
4 Her misbegotten father spent most of his adult life in prison.
5 He spent his adult life in Canada.
6 She spent her entire adult life caring for others.
7 She spent the afternoon pruning roses.
8 We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.
9 I spent the afternoon snug and warm in bed.
10 The children spent the afternoon playing in the garden.
11 We spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.
12 We spent the afternoon fooling around on the beach.
13 She spent the afternoon looking round the shops.
14 They spent a pleasant afternoon motoring through the countryside.
15 He spent a pleasant afternoon reading.