Use spent in a sentence
Sentences starting with spent
- Spent an hour, yesterday, with A. W. Lamb, who was not married when I saw him last. [5]
- Spent m' vacation 'n Russia, 'n saw Tolstoi; he said--" It made me shudder. [5]
Sentences ending with spent
- But O, father, what a night I have spent! [10]
- By that tymes they weare answered, the place about us well discovered, and our devyne service ended, the daie was farr spent. [4]
- But it was the old glow, not the new--the light m which her early years had been spent. [9]
- I reached for the ledger, and turning the pages, called off to him the sums he had spent. [9]
- That evening, as she had dreaded, her grandfather stole away, and did not come back until the night was far spent. [12]
- I always liked Scotland as an idea, but now, as a reality, I like it far better; it furnished me with some hours as happy almost as any I ever spent. [14]
- It was the painfullest night I ever spent. [5]
- Through the haze of smoke she saw the sun drop like a ball of fire cooled to redness, whose course is spent. [9]
- The day was not given us for sleep, and we must live in it with open eyes, that not a single hour may be idly spent. [10]
- It was near morning when she fell asleep; and when she awoke, accustomed as she was to early hours, she was startled to see how much of the day was spent. [10]
Short sentences using spent
- How have I spent them? [11]
- How have you spent it? [2]
- I spent a miserable day. [9]
- Justine Caron spent hours there. [11]
- The night was far spent. [5]
- The day was far spent. [5]
- Joan's strength was all spent. [5]
Sentences containing spent two or more times
- As a rule they spent a part of every Sabbath--after morning service --in this sumptuous home, the rest of it they spent in Europe, or in dawdling around in their private yacht. [5]
- I found that one of these creatures had spent nine years in the county jail, and that the other one had spent about four or five years in the same place. [5]
- The three spent at the university were coeval with the second and last three spent by the little Stratford lad at Stratford school supposedly, and perhapsedly, and maybe, and by inference--with nothing to infer from. [5]
More example sentences with the word spent in them
- I shall have your next quarter's salary spent before you get it, I think. [5]
- You have spent your life in idleness. [2]
- Indeed, I warn you that any money you may send will be spent in drink, and--and worse. [9]
- To reach Glencoe you spent two dirty hours on that railroad which (it was fondly hoped) would one day stretch to the Pacific Ocean. [9]
- The papers say you have spent many hours at the Colonial Office. [11]
- Mr. Lascelles spent yesterday here on the farm, and told me all about it. [5]
- He was eighty-five years old, and had spent his whole life in battle. [5]
- More than fifty years of his sixty-five were spent at sea. [5]
- In all the years I've spent here I've never seen one that could compare with him in nature, character, and force. [11]
- He spent three years at the University of Aleala, and nothing but good news of him reached her. [10]
- There, I was wrong to be indignant in your presence,--you who seem to have spent your life in trying to get others out of difficulties. [9]
- How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
- If I went with them and spent the night in Guben I could reach home in time the next day. [10]
- She covered them with rouge every day, to conceal the evidence of the sorrowful hours she spent when alone? [10]
- One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails. [10]
- I spent money with a free hand, and meantime watched the stock sales with an interested eye and looked to see what might happen in Nevada. [5]
- Longueil sprang forward with a cry of rage, but a spent ball struck him. [11]
- The prime minister, whose last breath was spent in scolding his nurse, dies with a magnificent apothegm on his lips, manufactured by a reporter. [6]
- We ran that whole battery of nine blasts in a row, and it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore. [5]
- We spent a whole afternoon going about here and there and yonder, and hunting up the scenes and talking of the crimes which we had committed so long ago. [5]
- This was Raevski, who had spent the whole day at the most important part of the field of Borodino. [2]
- A well-known writer, who had spent some weeks at Arrowhead Village, was generally suspected of being its author. [6]
- There were hours when, Ditmar's passion leaving spent itself, they achieved comradeship, in the office and out of it; revelations for Janet when he talked of himself, relating the little incidents she found most illuminating. [9]
- It was September when the millstones arrived, and I spent a joyous morning of final bargaining with Mr. Myron Scarlett. [9]
- I even know what we ordered for supper at the hotel where we spent the night. [10]
- After that, for weeks, he spent all his midnights in his magnificent mine, inspecting it in security, gloating over its marvels at his leisure, and always slipping back to his obscure lodgings before dawn, with a duke's ransom under his cloak. [5]
- I spent a week with Mrs. Gaskell in the spring, and a fortnight with some other friends more recently, and that includes the whole of my visiting since I saw you last. [14]
- I spent a week there, at that time, in a boarding-house, and had this young fellow for a neighbor across the hall. [5]
- During the whole week she spent in this way, that feeling grew every day. [2]
- I spent the week before election in the city, where I had the opportunity of observing what may be called the charitable side of politics. [9]
- And many days we spent in the wood, playing at hunting game--a poor enough amusement for me, and one that Nick soon tired of. [9]
- After leaving Hirsau, we again met the Gallaits in Wildbad and spent some delightful days with them. [10]
- In this quiet way he had passed the two years of residence in Dresden, the year divided between Brussels and the Hague, and a very tranquil year spent at Vevay on the Lake of Geneva. [6]
- His whole time was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince Vasili's house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and his beautiful daughter Helene. [2]
- Half an hour was spent over Joan's apparitions--their dress, hair, general appearance, and so on--in the hope of fishing something of a damaging sort out of the replies; but with no result. [5]
- The late evening was spent in gaiety with her grandfather and the Chevalier; but at night when she went to bed she could not sleep. [11]
- The first night was spent at "Warraskogack," the king of which warned Smith that while Powhatan would receive him kindly he was only seeking an opportunity to cut their throats and seize their arms. [4]
- At fifteen Bacon was sent to the university, and he spent three years there. [5]
- In 1614 it was said that seven thousand houses lived by this trade, and that L 399,375 a year was spent in smoke. [4]
- Little Miss Dolly was often at the Hall after that happy week we spent together; and her home, Wilmot House, was scarce three miles across wood and field by our plantation roads. [9]
- In Bremen I was most cordially received in the family of Mohr, a member of my corps, in whose circle I spent some delightful hours, and also an evening never to be forgotten in the famous old Rathskeller. [10]
- When the army was in the field her anxiety was ceaseless; day and night were spent in restlessness and watching. [10]
- He said he was ashamed of his ignorance, but that he had never been confronted with the question before during the fifty years and more that he had spent in Australia, and so he had never happened to get interested in the matter. [5]
- Her excellenza's mother was a Chevreaux, and my mistress spent the best years of her life with her mother's sister, who during the winter lived in Paris. [10]
- The storm of war has blown to your house the young madcap, with whom you spent such happy hours at your sister's wedding. [10]
- I very much wanted one of the sorry old tables which the prisoners had spent so many years in ornamenting with their pocket-knives, but red tape was in the way. [5]
- He spent his visits reading to Mr. Carvel, who sat in his chair all the day long. [9]
- In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. [2]
- One afternoon when Virginia was sitting in the summer house alone, her thoughts wandering back, as they sometimes did, to another afternoon she had spent there,--it seemed so long ago,--when she saw Mammy Easter coming toward her. [9]
- How the hunters vied with each other to supply the best, and spent the days stalking the deer cowering in the wet thickets. [9]
- It would be very tiresome staying here, and so four of us ran the quarantine blockade and spent seven delightful days in Seville, Cordova, Cadiz, and wandering through the pleasant rural scenery of Andalusia, the garden of Old Spain. [5]
- I spent my valuable youth learning Greek and Latin, and I can't speak or read either of them. [9]
- Money is spent upon them with a free hand. [5]
- Pierre again went up onto the knoll where he had spent over an hour, and of that family circle which had received him as a member he did not find a single one. [2]
- We picked her up in the street, and have treated her like a daughter, spent enormous sums on her, and now. [10]
- He caught her up in his arms, bore her to the house, laid her on a sofa, and, having spent his strength in this last effort, reeled and fell, and lay as one over whom have just been whispered the words, "He is gone. [6]
- Moses Hatch hitched up his team and went out to see Jabez, spent an hour in general conversation, and then plumped the question, taking, as he said, that means of finding out. [9]
- It was the unconscious tribute, too,--slight as was its exhibition,--of the man whose life has been spent in the conquest of material things to the man who has the audacity, insensate though it seem, to fling these to the winds in his search after ideals. [9]
- He spent over two years in Ravenna, and said he preferred it to any place in Italy. [4]
- The family spent two winters in Vienna, and their apartments there constituted a veritable court where the world's notables gathered. [5]
- He had spent two hours at the Colonial Office after he left Jasmine, and now all night he kneaded the dough of a new policy with his companions in finance and misfortune. [11]
- After the last two days spent in solitude and unusual circumstances, Pierre was in a state bordering on insanity. [2]
- Dupont was coming to-night--Dupont who had profited by the crime, and had not spent his profits, but had built upon them to further profit; for Dupont was avaricious and prudent, and a born criminal. [11]
- It was impossible to struggle against this trick of wrestling, which Laflamme had learned from a famous Cornish wrestler, in a summer spent on the English coast. [11]
- Before Margaret went to Lenox, Henderson spent a few days with us. [4]
- You will care to know of how these months have been spent, and what news of note there is of the fighting between our countries. [11]
- The case was to come up early in July, and I spent most of my time, to the detriment of other affairs, in preparing for it. [9]
- I have reason to believe that the police of Paris never knew where I spent the night of the 18th of June. [4]
- He saw that to admit her contentions would be to behold crumble into ruins the structure that he had spent a life in rearing; and yet something within him responded to her words--they had the passionate, convincing ring of truth. [9]
- After some little time spent in resting and looking and ciphering, we hurried on to the hotel. [5]
- For the first time since she could recollect anything Dada had spent a sleepless night. [10]
- Venters spent the time reducing her temperature, cooling her hot cheeks and temples. [13]
- I had little time or inclination for reading fiction; my days were busy ones, and my nights were spent with law books. [9]
- I spent the time on the whole happily with this Dutchman, whose name was Hans Koppel. [9]
- They spent their time in the bar-room, and when they left it was nearly noon. [11]
- He spent the time in looking through old family papers, fishing out ancient documents, partly out of curiosity, partly from an unaccountable presentiment. [11]
- Our leisurely steamboat tied up here in the afternoon and spent the night, giving the passengers an opportunity to make thorough acquaintance with the town. [4]
- Pierre, who had thus spent his first sane and conscious hour in many days, fell asleep. [11]
- Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. [5]
- Have spent the three days partly in walking about, partly in enjoying social privileges, and largely in idling around the magnificent garden at Hutt, a little distance away, around the shore. [5]
- He had noticed this spent condition when he first came in, but his eyes now rediscovered it. [11]
- She talked of this place, recalled the hours spent here, spoke even softly of Leicester. [11]
- We note in this communication that Clemens says that he has been at the machine three years and seven months, but this was only the period during which he had spent the regular monthly sum of three thousand dollars. [5]
- Perhaps he was thinking of the life he had lived, which was spent now: of the men he had ruled, of the victories he had gained from that place which would know him no more. [9]
- 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. [8]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendour of it, after a long sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendor of it, after a long, sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- I spent years there," said Pierre. [2]
- Reporters had been there, Republican Headquarters had telephoned to know if I were ill. Leaving word that I was not to be disturbed under any circumstances, I went to my room, and spent most of the night in distracted thought. [9]
- She spent hours there, not only praying, but holding intercourse with the image of the Madonna, from which she dill not avert her eyes, as though it was a living being. [10]
- Those who go there year after year converse a great deal about their liking for it, and think the time well spent in persuading new arrivals to take certain walks and drives. [4]
- The two of them, and Ned and Mammy, spent a rollicking hour in the pasture the freedom of which Dick had known so long, before the old horse was caught and brought back into bondage. [9]
- We have spent them in chasing round after people for whom we cared nothing, and being chased by them. [5]
- Pierre dined with them and would have spent the whole evening there, but Princess Mary was going to vespers and Pierre left the house with her. [2]
- The majority spent their time in idleness, quarreling, and plotting mutiny. [4]
- The remainder of their lives is consequently spent in retirement. [6]
- Once spent, does the world to each succeeding experimenter in it become old and stale? [4]
- I'm quite sure the world thinks I'm one of your spent flames, and there never was any fire, not so big as the point of a needle, was there? [11]
- While I spent the winters in my mother's house in industrious work and pleasant social life, the summers took me out of the city into the open air. [10]
- We soon reached the town of Nelson, and spent the most of the day there, visiting acquaintances and driving with them about the garden--the whole region is a garden, excepting the scene of the "Maungatapu Murders," of thirty years ago. [5]
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