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Example sentences for: spent

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We hear the tale of a project manager for US West, who's spent his career finding ways for businesses to use technology but in the process found himself a slave to the machine.
I got a strange sort of corroboration from my good friend Rosy McHargue, who is now pushing eighty-seven years and has spent most of his life playing clarinet and sax with some of the best jazzbands—Benny Goodman, Red Nichols, Ted Weems, and a slew of others.
According to island lore, the daughters of noble families spent their youth in these small cells serving the native gods.
(Espy prosecutor Donald Smaltz spent $12 million investigating a $35,000 transgression.)
These words came as quite a shock to those of us who have spent the past year and a half trying to develop, on behalf of the Microsoft Corp., a magazine whose distinguishing characteristic is that it does not come in the mail.