Sentence for spent | Use spent in a sentence

Examples of spent sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use spent in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for spent.

• She spent her heart on it. (10)
• Has any part of it been spent? (10)
• At night she was a spent rocket. (10)
• I spent the night in a stinking cell. (8)
• He perceived that her nerves were spent. (9)
• He spent half an hour in reaching the sanctuary. (5)
• We therefore spent the whole morning in this way. (6)
• And so the trio spent the evening of that Saturday. (8)
• He attached himself to them; he spent the day with them. (9)
• He had spent a small fortune in the purchase of flowers. (8)
• August and the first half of September were spent near Bude. (8)
• Gyp spent all that evening writing her first real love-letter. (8)
• He had not spent an altogether happy two years in that office. (13)
• Later he removed to Lyons, where he spent the rest of his life. (3)
• We spent our last afternoon in that orchard, lying in the long grass. (8)
• The English prisoners taken at Canso spent many weeks shut up in Louisburg. (19)
• The remainder of that night and the next day were spent in bed by Barclugh. (18)
• Irene dressed herself very stylishly, and spent hours on her toilet every day. (9)
• She had spent many miserable hours there, but none quite so miserable as this. (8)
• Were he ever able to get away, the day would be spent in coming and returning. (4)
• Several minutes were spent in an altercation between Edelsheim and Bandelmeyer. (10)
• In this cruel uncertainty, she spent the next two hours, till it was nearly three. (8)
• Temple and the pallid confectioner spent the day on board a yacht with my father. (10)
• He spent the hours profitably, however, in digesting the newspapers and storing ardour. (8)
• It was no better in the old house on the wall; he spent the night tramping up and down. (8)
• His time had been mostly spent in the mountains, now with one companion, now with another. (1)
• Toward the end of September Westover spent the night before he went back to town with them. (9)
• Almost unconsciously she had put on her prettiest frock, and spent an hour before the glass. (8)
• Basil spent five minutes in arraigning his wife and convicting her of every folly and fault. (9)
• Her only truly happy hours were those spent with Winton or at her piano or with her puppies. (8)
• Handel thereupon withdrew and the year following went to Italy, where he spent several years. (3)
• Then I thought I would go to the Gallerien; and I spent the whole day looking at the pictures. (8)
• They held each to the rail of the big bed where they had spent so many years of nights together. (8)
• March spent the rainy Sunday, on which they had fallen, in wandering about the little city alone. (9)
• His colonists spent a winter rendered miserable by the unfriendliness of the Indians and half-breeds. (19)
• He spent some years in concertizing, and in 1822 located at Cassel as the director of the orchestra there. (3)
• Spent with this ordeal, Grace left her at last, and went out on the piazza, where she found Libby returned. (9)
• At the end of each half hour, which he spent in reading about the stars, he returned to the door and knocked. (12)
• From half-past eight to half-past nine he had spent in choir practice, because the organist was on his holiday. (8)
• He could not bear to be away from her, and so forth; but when she had gone, he spent a furious bohemian evening. (8)
• He spent no money on vice; breathed no more air, used no more water to speak of than the mechanic or the porter. (8)
• Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr. Bennet spent the morning together, as had been agreed on. (4)
• His blood on fire, heedless of everything but to rush after happiness, Lennan spent those hours before the dance. (8)
• Among other things, he discovered that most of them spent not to exceed fifteen minutes a day on their newspapers. (16)
• When she reached home she went to bed, spent with the tumult of her emotions and sick with shame and self-reproach. (9)
• She spent whole hours at the pianoforte alternately singing and crying; her voice often totally suspended by her tears. (4)
• He overflowed with it, and he talked as little as he dreamed of anything else in the vast half-summer we spent together. (9)
• While the New Englanders prepared to launch their force, the French spent the time trying to strengthen their bastions. (19)
• He spent the time in a desperate endeavour to raise the money, but he had not raised the half of it when the banks closed. (9)
• Winifred spent the Christmas holidays a thought more fashionably than usual, with the matter locked up in her low-cut bosom. (8)
• But it was a book worthy the powers which could have given us yet greater things if they had not been spent on lesser things. (9)
• Jane had spent an evening at Hartfield with her grandmother and aunt, and every thing was relapsing much into its usual state. (4)
• Some of the things in it were not very familiar; he had spent lately a great deal on rugs, on stuffs, on Japanese bric-a-brac. (9)
• Cornelia spoke further of Emilia, and her delight in the visits of Mr. Powys, who spent hours with her, like a man fascinated. (10)
• Since we left Bruges, we have been up the Rhine, and then across to Nürnberg, where we spent a fortnight in great contentment. (14)
• They went to a hotel, and Miss Milray took lodgings where she always spent her Junes, before going to the Tyrol for the summer. (9)
• This was Lowell Mason, who was born in 1792, but spent his younger days in Savannah, Ga., where he studied music as an amateur. (3)
• He reached the village after dark, and spent the night at the inn; got up early next morning, took a boat, and pulled down-stream. (8)
• Your time has been properly and delicately spent, if you have been endeavouring for the last four years to bring about this marriage. (4)
• She spent much time in her garden, where the blossoms had all dropped, lilac was over, acacias coming into bloom, and blackbirds silent. (8)
• The major-domo informed him that Herr von Crammon had spent a couple of days at the castle, almost constantly closeted with its mistress. (12)
• My behaviour, during the very happy fortnight which I spent with you, did not, I hope, lay me open to reprehension, excepting on one point. (4)
• He smoked fitfully, and slowly, and in the hour that we spent together, his whiffs were of the desultory and unfinal character of his words. (9)
• Robert had spent his hopes upon a wet day that would have kept the congregation sparse and the guests at Fairly absent from public devotions. (10)
• There he found the foreman for the electrical contractor, and spent a busy hour explaining to the man the intricacies of the office blue prints. (13)
• Further large sums were spent and difficulties surmounted to fit out an expedition which was in the desert for three months and has but just returned. (12)
• I wish Sir Dick Lauder, instead of speculating where salmon spent the Christmas holidays, would apply his most inquiring mind to such a question as this. (6)
• Though he began as an amateur and after years spent in other pursuits, he outlived all his early contemporaries and became its most widely known representative. (3)

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Definition of spent:

• spent, spent, pa.t. and pa.p. of spend.(0)

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