[ UK /spˈɛnd/ ]
[ US /ˈspɛnd/ ]
VERB
  1. spend completely
    I spend my pocket money in two days
  2. pay out
    spend money
  3. use up a period of time in a specific way
    how are you spending your summer vacation?
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How To Use spend In A Sentence

  • Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
  • Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
  • We spend our days hunting for things to keep us alive. Times, Sunday Times
  • She promised coolth in San Francisco, where Julia had set her heart on spending the night.
  • Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
  • Service providers haven't completely snapped their wallets shut, but the emphasis for the near-term will be on controlled spending as they look for ways to grow revenues.
  • After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
  • This is as good a place as any to spend the night.
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