spent
Example Sentences
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Many of us are keen to forget hours spent running around muddy fields as part of cross country.
From BBC
Participants then spent the night in the lab while researchers recorded their brain activity and other physiological signals using polysomnography.
From Science Daily
The years have ticked by, three of them since he last kicked a ball, but every day spent grafting in the gym is one Gerard Deulofeu believes he is a step closer to a "miracle".
From BBC
The boys, then aged between five and 12, spent several months away from home shooting Lord of the Flies, which has been adapted for TV for the first time.
From BBC
He learned the ropes early and spent his childhood cleaning grain bins, baling hay and feeding the livestock.
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