Example sentences for: spender

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

  • Jahangir’s son Shahjahan became the biggest spender of all the Mughals.

  • They echo the old question, posed regularly by missionaries, anthropologists, and linguists, as to whether women speak (or “chatter,” a word used only for females and nonhumans) a different language, a dialect, a “genderlect” with each other and with men, whether they can, do, or should speak what the title of Dale Spender's book calls Man Made Language . The answers often appear in measured, academic prose.

  • Top influence spender?

  • It might even be a reasonably accurate metaphor if we lived in a world where the biggest spender always wins.

  • Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.


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