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Example sentences for "spent some"

  • During the Commonwealth he spent some time at Oxford, and was created D.

  • Seemingly he spent some time in the Low Countries, and he may have found his pupils among the English troops serving there, as in 1603 he published at Liege a book in French on arithmetic which also provides military information.

  • Two of James Basset's young sisters, Anne and Mary, spent some time in that country.

  • He spent some months at Magdalene College, Cambridge, but, having been rusticated for an affray in the street, refused to return to the College, and finished his education for himself at home.

  • When writing upon Rufus he spent some time in examining the afforested district of the New Forest, and sought for traces of the villages and churches said to have been depopulated or destroyed.

  • Lambert, who, of Swedish birth, spent some time as a sailor on the high seas and also sojourned for a period in Alaska.

  • During that period he spent some time at Fresno, California, endeavoring to start a raisin ranch.

  • Subsequently he spent some time in California but in 1872 he removed with his family to Waitsburg, Washington, whence two years later he came to Walla Walla, where he passed away.

  • Compelled to leave Zwickau, Munzer visited Bohemia, resided two years at Alltstedt in Thuringia, and in 1524 spent some time in Switzerland.

  • Arrived in Canada in 1683; spent some time at Quebec, and also travelled extensively in the West.

  • Spent some time in Australia, and returned to the Red River Settlement as recorder of Rupert's Land, 1862.

  • Spent some years in London engaged in the publishing business.

  • OVER THE GEMMI I spent some time, the evening before, studying the face of the cliff we were to ascend, to discover the path; but I could only trace its zigzag beginning.

  • I spent some days in calling upon the worthy frauen who made these alluring offers.

  • In that city, ill, restive, his patience gone, he spent some days.

  • He spent some time in Paris, where he hoped to get his "Rienzi" accepted at the Grand Opera.

  • And when, twenty years ago, I spent some time in Paris, the performances at the Grand Opera could not fail by the perfection of their musical and dramatic mise en scène to exercise a most dazzling and exciting influence upon me.

  • In the course of the two following years they twice spent some months at Boulogne-sur-mer, returning each time to Paris again.

  • Early in 1884 he spent some weeks in Paris, where the death of Turgenev had made a gap that he greatly felt.

  • I was introduced to Bento Gonzalez, and well received; spent some time in his company, and thought him a man highly favored by nature with some desirable gifts.

  • We spent some months in the Province of Corrientes, without the occurrence of anything important.

  • In Montevideo I spent some of my time in the house of my friend Napoleon Castellani, to whose kindness, and the courtesy of his wife, I felt much indebted.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spent some" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    applied psychology; dear good; elderly lady; eleven hours; fashionable life; free choice; moral freedom; more fully; necessary connexion; next time; other animal; other persons; party lines; relations between; slavery movement; spent much; spent several; spent some; spent the; spent three; spiritual beings; study hours; tenement house; von der; white enamel; yellow stain