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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:

Congress spends over $64 million a year on a research service that analyzes thousands of issues, from abortion to Zambia.
To that end, he spends hours documenting political, artistic, and spiritual subjects that other TV news dismisses in minutes.
But let's remember this: GM spends less on parts in a year than consumers spend on GM cars.
The NYT passes this theory along but spends most of its EgyptAir ink reporting that American crash investigators have been drawn to the role of the relief pilot not just for the reference he made to God shortly before the plane went down, but also because of the abrupt way he took the co-pilot's seat just minutes before the catastrophe.
Had the writer drawn the obvious parallels, he would have run the risk of endorsing the Justice Department's case against the monopolist Microsoft, a case Stross spends almost the entire book debunking.