Example sentences for: spendthrift

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

  • E. Exasperated Jeb Bush is pretty sure his spendthrift wife, Columba, wishes either that she hadn't bought "$19,000 worth of clothes and jewelry on her Paris shopping spree," or wishes that she hadn't tried to smuggle them through customs, or wishes that she hadn't got caught.

  • First we have Tony Coelho, then warring advisers, Carter Eskew, Gore sleepwalking through a clumsy spendthrift campaign operation, and now ...

  • He was, however, frequently distracted by attacks on his wife, who was seen as an extravagant spendthrift and a sinister influence on the king.

  • The Times ' sports commentator Simon Barnes called Ali "the most reckless spendthrift of himself that the world of sport has ever seen."

  • 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.


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