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Example sentences for "spent the"

  • Being obliged to come back, I spent the remainder of the afternoon in preparing lines for the morrow.

  • Spent the day in writing, and in meditating upon my future plans and prospects.

  • He spent the night in adoration of her attributes.

  • Simmonds and I spent the remainder of the evening in discussing the case, but neither of us was able to shed any new light upon it.

  • He spent the night in the worship of the attributes of Kali.

  • Thus, and with indifferent music, we spent the forenoon.

  • The Hosiander[81] spent the whole of this day in firing against one of the ships that was aground, and received many shots from the enemy, one of which killed Richard Barker the boatswain.

  • We spent the Sabbath in a miserable wigwam, where the snow and sleet dashed in upon us, making us shiver in spite of all we could do.

  • We spent the night on the shore of the lake, and slept comfortably on the smooth rocks.

  • With the disappearance of the ice from the lakes and rivers came the Indians in their birch canoes, from various quarters where they had spent the winter in trapping the fur- bearing animals.

  • In a short time the head of McPherson's column came up, went into camp, and we spent the night in Decatur.

  • I spent the night of February 1st at Hickory Hill Post-Office, and that of the 2d at Duck Branch Post-Office, thirty-one miles out from Pocotaligo.

  • We spent the 12th plying off and on, with a fresh gale at W.

  • At seven in the evening, we were close up with the north side of Owhyhee; where we spent the night, standing off and on.

  • We spent the night as usual, standing off and on.

  • We spent the morning in pasting strips of calico along the cracks of the ceiling in our sitting-room; it was rather a business, but Rebekah came in and helped.

  • Ellen and I spent the morning in cutting up material, and making up parcels to send round to each family.

  • Graham, helped by Johnny Green, spent the afternoon in building the wall of the field.

  • Under such circumstances I spent the night, thinking over everything that was painful in my whole life, and imagining all the different calamities that might befall my family in my absence.

  • I spent the summer of 1894 with my son Gerrit, in his home at Thomaston, Long Island.

  • I spent the night in town, for I came up yesterday to report.

  • Having got the doctor's general direction, I spent the day in visiting all the villages upon that side of Cambridge, and comparing notes with publicans and other local news agencies.

  • It was so late that I could not get back to Blackheath, so I spent the night at the Anerley Arms, and I knew nothing more until I read of this horrible affair in the morning.

  • I dined at Bougival, and then I spent the evening at a boatmen's ball.

  • He spent the interval in working by day in the garden, and passing the night in sighs, tears, and complaints, thinking of his dear princess Badoura.

  • For my part, I spent the day in great uneasiness, and when night arrived, opening a small private gate, I espied a little boat on the canal which seemed driven by the stream.

  • He spent the night in extreme uneasiness; and as soon as it was day went to the city, where he was surprised to see but very few Mussulmauns.

  • At five o'clock in the evening of the 13th, we made the island of Fayal, one of the Azores, and soon after that of Pico, under which we spent the night in making short boards.

  • The fog soon returning, we spent the night in making boards over that space which we had, in some degree, made ourselves acquainted with in the day.

  • Footooha by eight o'clock, where we spent the night, making short boards.

  • The dews began also to be so heavy, as to wet us, in our retreat behind the bushes, where we spent the night.

  • We spent the morrow, the 3d of June, in running about the town.

  • Artigue in the island of Babaguey, where we spent the remainder of the day, and in the evening returned to the town of Senegal.

  • I spent the morning in writing farewell letters, and making the final preparations for leaving.

  • From Worms I went to Frankenthal, where I spent the night (of August 18th) at the Pfalzhof.

  • After accompanying me through the Art Gallery, he changed his programme for the afternoon, and had the kindness to spent the balance of the day with me, showing me through the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.

  • An invitation was sent to her in the evening already, asking her to come to the hotel where an American was waiting to meet her, and early on Sunday morning she met me in the coffee-room where we spent the morning.

  • Thence I found my way to Greenwood Cemetery, where I spent the remainder of the day amid the tombs and monuments of "the great city of the dead.

  • At the invitation of Miss Kate Vaughan we spent the evening at the Royal Theater, where, as usual, we attracted fully as much attention as the play.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spent the" 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:
    anxious about; blank amazement; deputy sheriff; eight months; exciting cause; eyes from; giving power; green salad; its appearance; large garden; large percentage; little noise; many others; mine eyes; prepared for; same year; since love; solemnly swear; spent much; spent several; spent some; spent the; spent three; stood upright; three days; what prompted