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Example sentences for: spend

How can you use “spend” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Elway said he is retiring because his knee is damaged, he has accomplished what he sought in football, and he wants to spend more time with his family.
Mostly, though, the opinion mafia decides to spend time trading bons mots.
Now European telecoms and communication bureaucrats spend their energies on blocking innovation and searching for ways to monopolize a new enterprise whose entire soul is decentralization.
Other such spies spend 2 to 4 years in prison: Pollard is closing in on 14 years.
If you're a pessimist and don't trust your future self to be frugal, then you might as well spend all your money today so it doesn't fall into the hands of that future spendthrift.