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Example sentences for "spent several"

  • Coup, whom I had favorably known for some years as a capital showman and a man of good judgment, integrity, and excellent executive ability, we spent several weeks in blocking out and perfecting our course of action.

  • I spent several days in minutely examining these curious manufactures of a people, who were then almost as little known to nations generally as are the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter.

  • We spent several days in the new and flourishing town of Greeley.

  • Under these circumstances, and half way between hope and despair, I spent several days in fasting and prayer, during which one deep and all absorbing inquiry, one only thought, seemed to hold possession of my mind.

  • Here resided a tribe, or nation of Indians, called Wyandots, on whom we called, and with whom we spent several days.

  • In this city we spent several days, and preached to many of the people, but without much success.

  • After leaving the Azores, he spent several months in Europe, and then returned to America, spending the next winter at home.

  • He spent several years in traveling about Europe, and wrote a series of letters for the newspapers during this time.

  • He spent several years in traveling about France and Italy.

  • From El Jail Halevy travelled northward, passing the oasis of Khab, and skirting the great desert, reached the fertile district of Nejran, where he found a colony of Jews, with whom he spent several weeks in the oasis of Makhlaf.

  • He spent several years at the courts of Cardinal Sforza and Ferdinand, duke of Calabria; but his principal patrons were the Borgias at Rome, from whom he received many favours.

  • We spent several weeks at Florence in the Via della Scala, whence, the Mother being well, I went constantly to draw in the gallery of sketches by Old Masters at the Uffizi.

  • At Verona we spent several days, thinking it more captivating than ever.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and thy; broadly ovate; brownish yellow; called himself; catching sight; few times; five thousand four hundred; hand corner; high lands; left unfinished; many diseases; potassium iodide; reddish brown; said firmly; small brass; special assistant; special envoy; spent much; spent several; spent some; spent the; spent three; state appointed; through what; unless indeed; valid contract