Word Finder - spent

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To pay out (money).

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He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.

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To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

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To squander.

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to spend an estate in gambling

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To exhaust, to wear out.

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The violence of the waves was spent.

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To consume, to use up (time).

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My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

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To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

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The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

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To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

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Energy spends in the using of it.

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To be diffused; to spread.

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To break ground; to continue working.

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Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.

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a spent cartridge

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Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.

I spent enough time out here a few years ago.

He wore a mask and spent a lot of time in the apartment.

Damian went to the gym, where Darian spent most of his time.

I've spent a lifetime looking at long term implications.

I spent forty minutes alone with the director and related all the situations where your uncanny tips were involved.

Their lives are spent in toiling for the rich.

He'd spent so long hoping Darian became what he once was.

In all the time I spent in the woods as a young girl, that's the first time I've seen a bear.

There we spent many happy hours and played at learning geography.

He's spent half the day on the phone with his shrink-doctor.

Last summer I spent in one of the loveliest nooks of one of the most charming villages in New England.

Before returning to Bilibin's Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some time in the shop.

You have spent your life in idleness.

Quinn spent the whole time you were pregnant talking about him and me becoming friends with benefits.

After my first visit to Boston, I spent almost every winter in the North.

Baby Claire helped too, by taking her turn by demanding attention while I spent the time worrying about how I could protect the nest of fragile souls under my care.

One day spent with the blind children made me feel thoroughly at home in my new environment, and I looked eagerly from one pleasant experience to another as the days flew swiftly by.

The summer and winter following the "Frost King" incident I spent with my family in Alabama.

It makes me most happy to remember the hours we spent helping each other in study and sharing our recreation together.

I remember with deepest gratitude the kindness of these dear friends and the happy days I spent with them.

Here in Dr. Bell's laboratory, or in the fields on the shore of the great Bras d'Or, I have spent many delightful hours listening to what he had to tell me about his experiments, and helping him fly kites by means of which he expects to discover the laws that shall govern the future air-ship.

Teacher and I spent nine days at Philadelphia.

I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine.

You and I spent hours together, for years and years.

Martha and Betsy spent many a weekend searching out of the way shops and country auctions for their antiques.

The next three days were so spent.

I spent my life at battle.

Miss Sullivan and I spent the rest of the winter with our friends, the Chamberlins in Wrentham, twenty-five miles from Boston.

In March Helen and Miss Sullivan went North, and spent the next few months traveling and visiting friends.

Her every waking moment is spent in the endeavour to satisfy her innate desire for knowledge, and her mind works so incessantly that we have feared for her health.

So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express!

The one hundred and twenty-five dollars annually subscribed for a Lyceum in the winter is better spent than any other equal sum raised in the town.

It was one of those afternoons which seem indefinitely long before one, in which many events may happen, a large portion of our natural life, though it was already half spent when I started.

From my point; money was well spent.

Once aboard my flight I spent the next several hours squeezed between a talkative sailor and a woman with a fussy child.

They smell like they spent years on the ground.

July stretched into August, and just before the election, Jennifer Radisson spent her promised week at Bird Song.

We spent about three weeks in Boston, after leaving New York, and I need not tell you we had a most delightful time.

Now, she was at least half the woman he'd spent lifetimes loving and hating.

She looked him over, silently dismissing any notion that this creature spent much time in the mortal world.

I spent too long fighting to live on my terms to give in, even to you.

Every day she spent in this world, she became more confused.

He'd spent the past three nights in bed with another woman after completely destroying her whole world!

He'd spent hours on her, disabling her and then hurting her.

He.d spent most his life in Hell and remembered little of the Immortal world.

He'd spent ten sun-cycles looking for her.

She spent the next day in the game room, and the next.

The greater part of Poggio's long life was spent in attendance to his duties in the papal curia at Rome and elsewhere.

They learned that Chilon was a very quiet man, that he never spoke about himself, and that he spent all his time in trying to make his country great and strong and happy.

Just half a century ago, Americans on average spent more than 20 percent of their income on food.