Spent

Examples

• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If you always spent money in that way, no one would blame you, said Jo warmly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You're very right, Sir,' interposed Ben Allen, just awake enough to know that he had spent his thousand pounds without the smallest difficulty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The time, however, was spent in strengthening the intrenchments and making our position generally more secure against a sudden attack. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now she realised that this was the world of powerful, underworld men who spent most of their time in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Any private hours in her day were usually spent in her blue-green boudoir, and she had come to be very fond of its pallid quaintness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We spent last winter there. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There are sixty-three pages, and some patient monk has spent months, aye, perhaps years, in making it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He regretted it, I am sure; he values the hours spent with you. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He spent a fortune, but his patents were not renewed, and competition was thrown wide open. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They were dangerous now only to their own side, and the papal representative spent an unpleasant night hiding from them in the forest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• About ten or a dozen years ago, before her marriage, she had spent a considerable time in that very part of Derbyshire to which he belonged. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Some gloomy hours had she spent in the interval. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I spent no end of time in making out these things--Helicon, now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The mere fact that Edison spent years of his life in developing that process counted for nothing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Vanessa