Use spends in a sentence
Sentences containing spends two or more times
- She spends no money but her usual year's allowance, and she spends nearly every cent of that on other people. [5]
More example sentences with the word spends in them
- Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
- His air was what distressed me most of all, being that of a man who spends his days seeking favours and getting none. [9]
- In India the tourist's servant does not sleep in a room in the hotel, but rolls himself up head and ears in his blanket and stretches himself on the veranda, across the front of his master's door, and spends the night there. [5]
- When they get to be steers he spends all his holidays in breaking them in to a yoke. [4]
- He spends his time making them. [8]
- However, he here spends his evenings and nights in special occupations, which must of course be far from beneficial to the health and peace of mind which his office demands. [10]
- I think he spends half his time in New York studying, he calls it, our charitable institutions. [4]
- For he who receives money unjustly as well as justly, and spends neither justly nor unjustly, will be a rich man if he be also thrifty. [4]
- He spends his nights, not in social dissipation, but in gathering in rats, mice, flying-squirrels, and also birds. [4]
- Yet they tell me he might live in luxury if he spent on himself what he spends on science. [6]
- It probably spends little for news, has only one or, at most, two editors, is crowded with advertisements, which are inserted cheap, and costs, delivered, a little over six francs a year. [4]
- She comes home late from a feast, spends barely six hours in disturbed slumber, and has hardly rested so long as it takes a pebble to fall to the ground from a crane's claw before we have to dress her again for another meal. [10]
- That's the way Jethro spends the money he makes in politics, and he hain't no more of a farmer than--" Moses looked at Wetherell. [9]
- Jean thinks she is studying too, but I don't know what it is unless it is the horses; she spends the day under their heels in the stables--and that is but a continuation of her Hartford system of culture. [5]
- He now goes, in increasing number, to see where the bowlder once hung, and spends his time in hunting for it in the acres of wreck and debris. [4]
- He was born in a log cabin, and spends most of his time in a drug-store telling stories that you would not listen to, Judge Whipple. [9]
- You know what I need Mammon for; and it would be well for Joanna if she had less need to turn over every silver piece before she spends it in the housekeeping. [10]
- He spends long hours instead in the quarters devoted to his administration in Grosvenor Gardens, or in travelling in France and Ireland supervising the growing forces under his command. [9]
- He commonly spends his seventy years, if so many are given him, in getting ready to enjoy himself. [4]
- He spends all his remarkable eloquence in trying to persuade her, that she must forget this world entirely and only try to gain the favor of Osiris and the judges of the nether world by ceaseless prayers and sacrifices. [10]
- A Milesian named Hekataeus, who spends his life in travelling, drew it, and gave it me in exchange for a free-pass. [10]
- He spends what he has on this kind of thing--research, for the benefit of humanity, as he thinks,--but very little research work succeeds, and even then it doesn't pay. [9]
- On the other hand, the utterly bad man is generally profligate, and therefore poor; while he who spends on noble objects, and acquires wealth by just means only, can hardly be remarkable for riches any more than he can be very poor. [4]
- The Dutchman spends half his life, apparently, in fighting the water. [4]
- One's head aches, and one spends all one's money. [2]
- Thus if one acquires double and spends half, the other, who is in the opposite case and is a good man, cannot possibly be wealthier than he. [4]
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