Spent means: Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted. Related words include exhausted or gone. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Spent in practice.
Spent in a sentence
Related words
Spent meaning
- Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
- Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
- Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
Example sentences (20)
Males spent more time searching for and chasing salmon than females, who spent more time traveling and socializing.
But one spent $150k to make perfect molds in the U.S., whereas the other spent only $8k to crank them out in China.
That means she spent nearly two and a half bucks for every vote she earned, while Kopser spent over $40 per vote.
After an evening spent with friends and acquaintances, he spent the night there, and set out the next morning for home.
About $22 million was spent on distance learning, and the state said it spent $28 million on economic support.
There’s an odd amount of time spent on Lucifer the cat, and relatively little time spent at Cinderella’s magical soiree.
Over time, she said the focus is to try to increase the time spent running and reduce the time spent walking.
We spent a lot of time on fundamentals, but we also spent an equal amount explaining the mental side of being an athlete.
The total spent shown is the amount of money spent since July 1, 2018, to the present by each subdivision of the ACE budget.
It is about the two years Thoreau spent in a cabin in Massachusetts, about time spent simply and cleanly.
Inner West Council spent $1.2 million on advertising in the last financial year, while Northern Beaches Council spent $916,000.
The municipal and provincial governments spent $5 million each; the federal government spent $500,000.
When I first started swimming, I spent more time recovering between each lap than I spent swimming and only swam 150 yards a day.
Today you will enjoy time spent with family or even time spent making your home look more attractive.
The real consideration is not whether this sum should be spent but whether it is better spent on the subsidy or on other programs.
Dylan Gonzales and his girlfriend Samantha Garcia said they spent about $400 to get their gear and believe it was money well spent.
This girl spent her formative years isolated and abused, and then spent almost a decade in prison.
The time spent trying to tie in the story to the events of would have been better spent developing some of ’s underwritten characters.
Per the breakdown, $1.14million was spent on accommodation, while $8,541 was spent on visa fees.
The pair spent the past Thanksgiving together in Dublin, and also spent Christmas Eve together.
Common combinations with spent
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- spent on 45×
- time spent 21×
- he spent 20×
- have spent 18×
- spent more 18×
- has spent 17×
- and spent 16×
- be spent 15×
- was spent 14×
- who spent 14×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word spent. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.