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Get to know Spent better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like gone or tired.

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Spent in a sentence

Spent | Spenta | Spentas | Spentzos

Spent meaning

  1. Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
  2. Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
  3. Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.

Synonyms of Spent

exhausted gone tired worn out worn-out washed-out played out fatigued fagged dog-tired expended

Using Spent

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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 | Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
  • Useful related words include: exhausted, gone, tired, worn out.
  • In the example corpus, spent often appears in combinations such as: spent on, time spent, he spent.

Example sentences (20)

Once upon a time, they spent and spent and spent, first to save Fenway Park from ruin and gaudy replacement and to reverse the curse, then to make sure they weren’t an October one-hit wonder, and so on and so forth.

This allows you to better visualize how much you spent, when you spent it, and where you spent it.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders' campaign has spent $14 million, Pete Buttigieg's campaign has spent $11.4 million and Elizabeth Warren's campaign has spent $10 million on TV ads.

The $1.5m that was spent on the school wall and the $7.2M spent on the airline could have been better spent here.

Spent mash is also known as spent beer, distillers' spent grain, stillage, and slop or feed mash, so named because it is used as animal feed.

Abandoned and left for dead as a baby, Fatima spent months in hospital suffering from malnutrition and subsequently spent her childhood in a series of children’s homes.

Abraham is one of four to fetch an eight-figure fee after time spent in the second tier, along with (who spent a season on loan at Derby), Fikayo Tomori (also Derby) and Marc Guehi (Swansea).

And then, the second sort of unrelated part of the question, I know we're just spent a month, a month and a half ago spent some time on development, of course.

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A third, Tweeted: “My wife and I spent over £60 on Sat 4th Feb and received nothing as per the promo/article," while a fourth, continued: “I spent well over the £20 threshold on Saturday 4th Feb & never received my voucher.

Atsu spent eight years registered with Chelsea and Newcastle between 2013 and 2021 but had spent this season at Turkish Super Lig side Hatayspor for the current campaign.

But it also seems to me that you have spent a few hundred million dollars of cash flow over, let's say, the years prior to '23 and then you spent another $150 million.

Considering Union Pacific spent in the last quarter another $120 million to repurchase its shares, bringing the total amount spent on buybacks at $750 million so far.

Florence Fisher, an adoptee who spent decades searching for her birth parents and then spent another half century fighting to open adoption records for millions of others, died on Oct. 1 in Brooklyn.

If 19% of the 365 billion dollars a year spent on the War on Terror had been spent on hunger-reduction programs in the areas worst affected by hunger at world level, this too would have saved many precious human lives.

It spent more time in development than it ever spent on the air.

Masters said no money from the HIP grants and property tax abatements has been spent in the city’s downtown core and only one per cent of the grants have been spent in North Central or the Heritage neighbourhoods.

So the money that could have been spent on governance has been spent on the L.N.A.,” said Tim Eaton, a researcher at Chatham House, a research group.

The pair spent the past Thanksgiving together in Dublin, and also spent Christmas Eve together.

The real consideration is not whether this sum should be spent but whether it is better spent on the subsidy or on other programs.

The staggering combined debt pile built up by the UK’s 12 water companies means that huge swathes of cash are being spent on interest payments – money that could be spent cleaning up polluted rivers or fixing leaky pipes.

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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×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "spent" in a sentence?
An example: "Once upon a time, they spent and spent and spent, first to save Fenway Park from ruin and gaudy replacement and to reverse the curse, then to make sure they weren’t an October one-hit wonder, and so on and so forth." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "spent" from authentic English texts.
What does "spent" mean?
Spent means: Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
What are synonyms of "spent"?
Common synonyms of "spent" include: exhausted, gone, tired, worn out, worn-out, washed-out, played out, fatigued. Plus 3 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "spent" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "spent", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.