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Example sentences for: spends

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

In addition, the federal government spends a large amount of money on Alaska's native peoples.
Her husband says she actually spends less time on either because we're there.
Also, a writer spends a sunless winter in Greenland: She drinks a lot.
"Japan's military spending is one per cent of the GNP but that is equal to 35 billion dollars or ten times what Pakistan spends on defence."
Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.