What joy is it to spend one's days in such a waste as this?
The passengers were led into the Quarantine Section, where they would spend their first three days on Mars.
He'd spend most of his time safely indoors, he promised himself, where he wouldn't need the cumbersome trappings of space clothing.
The first of his war calls to service came just as he was preparing to return to America from London where he had brought his family from California to spend the school vacation of 1914.
I was questioned about mechanics on the way, and at the end tactfully explained I was just going on leave and meant to spend every second in a garage!
I used to spend the interval, after "Little Willie" was all prepared for the road, combing out Wuzzy's silver curls.
An aspirant must spend fifty years, not including the period of infantile education, merely getting ready to begin, and the acquisition of factual knowledge, while not understressed, takes only a small proportion of those fifty years.
I shall spend the time filling in some blanks in this record, but I am afraid it will be a spotty job, because there is so much I no longer care about.
He would spend hours travelling those eerie shifting corridors of Space with no hint of another human soul.
I have read the 11th chapter of Ist Kings, and I have spent such a night as I pray God I shall never spend again.
Then he says to the Labonga, "My men will return he says, "but as for me I will spend the night with my children.
Scarcely a day passed on which Trevor did not arrive to stay, or at least to spend some hours at Silverton.
A workman knew exactly how much he had to spend and how to spend it.
Let us not bother too much about the future, but let us seize the flying moments; which means we ought to go to Whitechapel on Thursday andspend a happy day.
I have bought a map of London in sections, and I spend hours wandering with you in some of the strange places.
So far he had had no occasion to spend money for anything else, and no beggar had crossed his path to tempt from him the little he had.
I haven't yet thought how we're going to spend the evening," said the old man.
She turned on the steps of the omnibus to say: "I will let you know about Jean's return, and remember, you are to spend Christmas with us.
As the days shortened, they would spend their evenings over the wood fire in the manor drawing-room, reading aloud from some favorite book of poetry or prose.
The last week in November Helen went to town to spend Thanksgiving with the Hills.
My aunt does not care to spend more than two months over here, and it is her intention to return home at Christmas time.
It was a custom of long standing for Nan, Mollie, and Eleanor to spend the last night of the season with the Lawrence girls, to talk over the events of the summer and to anticipate the future.
Yes, but my family spend the winters in Washington, and our country home is only open during the summer months.
We spend our lives in the search and we die before the end is attained.
It is always pleasant to examine our stores, to contemplate our own wealth, even when we do not mean to spend it.
Without the toilet how would she spend the time between dinner and supper.
One may learn to think in places where bad taste rules supreme; but we must not think like those whose taste is bad, and it is very difficult to avoid this if we spend much time among them.
It is the amusement of the idle and unemployed, who do not know what to do with their time, and so spend it in taking care of themselves.
You will spend your life in peace, and you will leave it without terror; you will detach yourself from life as from other things.
You will easily understand that Emile and I do not spend the whole of the night which follows after such an evening in sleep.
People who spend their whole life in working for a living have no ideas beyond their work and their own interests, and their mind seems to reside in their arms.
I fear that these little saints who have been forced to spend their childhood in prayers to God will pass their youth in another fashion; when they are married they will try to make up for lost time.
Yesterday Miss Betty Roldham came to spend the afternoon and insisted on doing some of her work.
To train a child to be really attentive so that he may be really impressed by any truth of experience, he must spend anxious days before he discovers that truth.
And so Mr. Jack, who made speeches for Breckenridge in the face of Mr. Brinsmade's Union leanings, laughed at Stephen when he came to spend the night.
He lost Napoleon's favour by plain speaking in the Egyptian campaign, and presently returned to France to spend the rest of his days in retirement at Villers Cotterets, where he had married in 1792 Marie Elisabeth Labouret.
Perhaps it is well to pay the soldiers, but one need not spend money on equipment until there is risk of war.
Good pay is of no use if one dies before one can spend it," Moreau rejoined.
On the Caribbean coast, menspend large sums on their hats.
And in fact you don't think a girl ought to be allowed to spend her money without some wise person of the superior sex to guide her hand?
But that a man should spend five whole consecutive hours, nearly a quarter of a day, in dancing for the mere sake of showing that he could keep it up and dance ever so many people down, is rather a sad exhibition of smallness.
Having dined, I stood on the doorstep of the hotel smoking a cigar and revolving in my mind where I should spend my evening, when I was accosted by a police agent making some inquiry about my passport.
Neither Germany nor Austria is likely to spendblood and treasure for the aggrandizement of Russia.
He was drawn to Minola not because she had money, but because having money she was willing to spend some of it in bringing out his poems in a handsome edition.
It is intended to spend some time in the Mediterranean in visiting various places of interest, and to return home by way of England.
Then follow in like metre twenty-three staves, containing a persuasion from losing of time follily in lust and vice, but to spend the same in virtue and godliness, as ye may read in Geffrey Chawcer's works lately printed.
A penny spend I may;" and so drank his pint, for bread nothing did he pay, for that was allowed free.
So he will tell you that people used to be honest; that the grocers gave full weight and the merchants full measure, and that the bank cashier did not spend the evening of his days in Canada.
Contrast, please, how we are enabled by their good offices to spend the Sabbath, with the descriptions of hell with all its terrors and all the gloom characterizing the Sabbaths our forefathers had to spend.
I love to spend an evening on the twilight boundary line between tears and smiles.
With reckless hands wespend and waste and chide the flying hours for loitering by the way.
Many men probably reach their intellectual height long before they have lived thirty years, and spend the balance of their lives in defending the mistakes of their youth.
Leaving the dust and glory of revolutions, let us spend a moment of quiet with Adam Smith.
Though "seekers after wisdom," the cultivated people of Athens did not spend all their valuable leisure in dialectics or in connoisseurship.
It is hardly necessary to spend much time in proving that Mr. Longfellow's version is far superior to Mr. Cary's.
They were to spend the first night with Mrs. Cameron, whom Helen found the counterpart of her worthy brother.
They have not, since we have been in this part of the world, but when in England, I am told, they spend part of every summer here.
And he used to come over from Verviers every Saturday and spend Sunday with his family.
But now tell me, darling, how did you spend the whole day there?
Finally, love of home and the desire to see his family caused a laboring man, Casper Schushler, who was working in another village, to steal through the line and spend an evening at his own family fireside.
The leaders of this foundation have certainly found an appropriate place to spend money.
The bride and groom had to spend the night in their glacial palace.
When one of them has gotten it into his head that you are to spend the day with him, it is all over.
Would that I had the treasures of Pharaoh, to spendthem upon wine and the beautiful women of Cordova with the gentle eyes which invite kisses!
I have saved money, and cannot spend it better than in helping the widow and orphan.
He knew how much she loved James, and that she would spend the best days of her youth waiting for him to come back, as he was sure that she would never marry anybody else.
The next day, which was Sunday, he was a great deal better, and David came again to spend the day with him.
I ve got only a doller to spend for all the famly, so will you plese ask the pris for me as I am afrade it will be to high.
The last is the best of all the rest,' for we were all invited a week ago to take tea and spend Christmas evening at Hunger-ford.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spend" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
