spent

Example Sentences

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Another incentive to take the higher sum: What if you invested that $700 every month for the next 19 years, and spent the rest living your best life?

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

For the families of Mexico’s missing, the millions spent on high-tech stadium shields are an insult.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

By 1992, more than $50 million had been spent in restoration and renovation, but the project was scuttled by a bankruptcy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

It makes sense, then, that he spent much of his time in ’90s celebrity culture fixated on O.J.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

The adrenaline from saving the red-shoed girl was wearing off, and he’d spent a great deal of energy battling the pull of the Afterlife to make it back to the cottage.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman