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.

  • Chernow attributes Rockefeller's poor relations with Harper to the fact that the college president was a spendthrift.

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

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

  • Parker, Jonathan A. "Spendthrift in America?


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