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Example sentences for: spends

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He rarely washes, smokes and drinks too much (amongst other similar vices), and spends the time he's not watching infomercials until 4 a.m., pining over a girl who broke up with him long ago.
The United States now spends $1.
The camera also spends an excessive amount of time dwelling on him, to a point where it becomes irritating to see him walking—frequently in slow motion— into yet another museum or laboratory.
To that end, he spends hours documenting political, artistic, and spiritual subjects that other TV news dismisses in minutes.
Most reviewers, such as the Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley, complain that Stahl "pulls her punches" and spends too much time on anecdotes about past presidents and too little on exactly what it took for her to get where she is.