SPEND in a Sentence

Learn SPEND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
386 example sentences for SPEND, such as:
1. As much as a man may who has no money to spend.
2. They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
3. But I do want to know how you are going to spend it.
4. They spend their time whining about the good old days.
5. My mind boggles at the amount of money they spend on food.
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 Meanings and Examples of SPEND
spend
 v.  spend completely
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His mind was made up that he was not going to spend all of his days, like James and Andrew, in bargaining, or all his nights, by candlelight, over long columns of figures.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Southerners were as enthusiastic visitors as they were hosts, and there was nothing unusual in relatives coming to spend the Christmas holidays and remaining until July.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, not even a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  But I do want to know how you are going to spend it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  They spend their time whining about the good old days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  What fun it was to be able to spend as much money as you liked and not count pennies and feel that you should save them to pay taxes or buy mules.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  But perhaps he had only come to ask if Beau could spend the day with Bonnie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
9  It was like a picnic for them to spend so long a visit with Aunt Melly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
10  As much as a man may who has no money to spend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  She had made no reply to his suggestion that they should spend the afternoon together, but as her plan unfolded itself he felt fairly confident of being included in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
13  I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
14  About this time she was farther cheered by an invitation to spend the Thanksgiving week at a camp in the Adirondacks.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
15  I wanted money, and I've got more than I know how to invest; and now the money doesn't seem to be of any account unless I can spend it on the right woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
Example Sentence: (176 in 12 pages)
1  There is only one success --- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
2  Reputable charities spend the lion's share of donations on aid and a tiny fraction on administration.
3  The time you spend on it doesn't, for all practical purposes, affect the final result.
4  It seems unnatural for a child to spend so much time alone.
5  I am not afraid I am afraid spend courage tattle and prate.
6  My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
7  You spend a disproportionate amount of your time on sport.
8  They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.
9  My mind boggles at the amount of money they spend on food.
10  The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
11  As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
12  The new bourgeoisie, which was created by the Industrial Revolution, had money to spend and wanted to travel.
13  Perhaps, true success is the way,as he likes to spend your life.
14  Try to be objective if you want to spend your money wisely.
15  The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.