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.
We did get a digital box so we could record programs and watch them at our leisure and not get tied to a schedule for tv programs but we end up recording so much that it always seems like I spend more time trying to watch tv and clear space in my digi box than write. On Efficiency, Or How To Get Everything Done As A Multi-Tasking Writer - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed.
Many folks have stated in many ways that even if CxP had had all of Shuttles bucks for the past five years, CxP wouldn't be any better off than it is now, because of mismanagement & misspending. Minor Damage Seen on Atlantis - NASA Watch
The National Health Service has visibly deteriorated, despite increased spending.
We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.
Life isn't a competition. It's a journey. If you spend that journey always trying to impress others, to outdo others, you're wasting your journey.
Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
My earnings and spending were out of whack.
Magazines need the revenue from this powerful, high-spending label. Times, Sunday Times
I love to cook, but I don't feel like spending the energy every evening.
He is the one who pushed for campaign spending limits in this race; he rather insisted on them.
He has identified ways to cut its 600m supply chain spending by 12% and devolved more responsibility to regional management teams. Times, Sunday Times
A study by the OECD and Mexico's Federal Competition Commission (CFC) found that 31% of Mexican household spending went on products supplied in monopolistic or highly oligopolistic markets.
The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
This helps the less well-off who spend a greater share of their income on products such as clothes; it hits the better-off, who spend more on services.
First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
No doubt some of these are metrosexuals, those city-dwelling gents with more than enough disposable income to spend on clothes, restaurants, the latest gadgets, exotic holidays and eyebrow waxing.
With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
This is not a full-scale spending review because of uncertainties about the medium-term economic outlook. Times, Sunday Times
You have to spend at least £5 when dining in at a branch of the chain to get a free quarter chicken meal or starter.
A reduction in the days that vessels can spend at sea means trawlers fish harder near their home ports. Times, Sunday Times
Very interesting that our Member of Parliament seems to think spending every waking hour in horning is more important than being in Parliament. Campaigning in Horning
He vowed to continue to expose overspending. The Sun
Earning enough to be able to spend time with my family. Times, Sunday Times
I'm still unsure about this one; it could turn out really cool, or an absolute disaster ... my main motivation is that i don't wanna spend money on a haircut. decisions, decisions purchase any of the following: Kindle, iPod Touch, or MacBook Archive 2009-02-01
The Korea Skating Union suspended Lee Jung-su and Kwak Yoon-gy from all competitions until April 2013 as punishment for allegedly helping to fix competitions and national team tryouts in March, KSU official Kim Tae-wan said. Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
Expect original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to not slash spending in customer-facing systems.
No bride unless your name rhymes with Schmim Schmardashian wants to spend more than she has to on her wedding. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The IP pellet was resuspended in final wash buffer and aliquoted for subsequent biochemical analyses.
They occur when a layer of unconsolidated sediment is fluidized and transport of fluid and suspended grains takes place through overlying sediment to the sediment-water interface.
In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
But considering how much time we spend on that time of the month - from puberty to menopause, the average woman menstruates almost seven whole years - many of us know surprisingly little about it.
UK gov/Scotland Office are spending £1.5M on their public info campaign on new devo powers.
Despite being very comfortable by Zambian standards, he is a man who does not spend his money carelessly and he is on a salary just like his wife and his workers.
Tax cuts will leave more in people 's pockets to spend and $1 trillion of infrastructure investment will reinforce demand for labour for a decade. Times, Sunday Times
And he warned Teheran it faces ever increasing sanctions if it refuses to suspend nuclear enrichment.
They just can't help spending our money on receptions for anything from the synchronised swimming team to the world-acclaimed left-handed marlies champions.
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin
He spends all his time on the ranch in conserving the soil. CHAPTER XI
Over the years in Mumbai, she spends time as an advertising copywriter, a freelance journalist and a publications officer for the World Wildlife Fund.
Spending has been jump-started by a drop in interest rates to 30-year lows as well as by the best monsoon since 1988.
Think of it as a play on European consumers' thirst and spending power. Times, Sunday Times
The court handed him a suspended sentence of two months in prison, with a probationary term of five years.
It is a cross plot of industrial R&D spending on the x-axis and so-called triadic patents on the y-axis. Innovation will get the economy moving
You spend another £10.00 on a programme and a small tub of organic raspberry ripple ice cream.
Even today, you still spend three days brain-dead before revival.
My children could spend hours watching playful monkeys at the primate exhibit.
The study found that, compared with visitors from the south of England, northerners were twice as likely to have phoned in sick so that they could spend the day at Alton Towers.
Spending in town centres has plummeted over the past decade. Times, Sunday Times
She linked the rising narrational deficit under Obama to pricey spending proposals Barnes is pushing in his gubernatorial bid. Valdosta Daily Times Homepage
These adjustments could quickly accelerate into a meaningful reallocation of government spending.
I remember spending as much time reading the contents of the books in Deus Ex and Fable, and reading the pads in Doom 3, as I ever spent actually trying to beat combatants. Some Thoughts, Part Seven – Games « The Graveyard
But there is, in this review, talk about the actors, about the sense of wonder, and fer pete's sake, man, the * entire review* is about how and why I was able to suspend my disbelief. FlickFilosopher.com
On a typical day, blokes spend 14 minutes getting ready. The Sun
She will spend a week relaxing in the Californian sunshine with a select team of stylists hand-picked from across the globe.
We had planned to spend the Bank Holiday weekend in Italy paying the next tranche of money and finalising the layout of sanitary ware in the bath room.
One widow, she said, was carrying around $900,000 in uncashed cheques; another confessed to spending $15,000 on designer clothes.
We need reform so that a suspended sentence can be converted by the original judge if the convicted criminals bring it into disrepute by their behaviour. The Sun
By the time he was a teenager in the 1950s, he was spending all his spare time at Recreation Park, cleaning boots, helping the groundsman, travelling to away games on the team bus.
To say how prisoners spend their time on leave is up to individuals is totally unacceptable. The Sun
But he is still notably dishier than anyone who spends all day hunched at a desk could hope for. Times, Sunday Times
Suspended from a giant parachute, the bronze-colored capsule carrying the taikonaut, coined from the Chinese word for space, touched down at around 6.23 am after a 21-hour journey that took him around the world 14 times.
The trade-off for drivers would be the abolition of road tax and fuel duty, and more spending on the road network. Times, Sunday Times
If you stop consumers spending by limiting their credit then recession is inevitable.
He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
Stay safe and remember to spend even a short moment quietly with the Almighty, He who governs and rules all.
But the detailed financial information that will be dripped out in coming weeks means they are also going to have to spend some time explaining the past. Times, Sunday Times
With this odd schedule during orientation at the new job, he won't be spending the days with me that he normally would.
Instead of enjoying the fact that we can live comfortably, we spend our time looking to see who is living just that little bit more comfortably than us.
In fact, even today, I doubt my parents would spend money on items they would consider frivolous and useless.
Anyone climbing the ladder to the loft is suspended above the vertical spiral stairwell - not recommended for those nervous of heights.
they spend hours and hours just playing the slots
We had to spend hours filling in forms.
Not in so many words, she viewed my new handset as just another exotic creation of a transnational technocracy using technology to get us to spend our obsessive consumerist, materialist dollars.
Families are switching their spending from essentials such as food and petrol to discretionary items as they treat themselves to little luxuries. Times, Sunday Times
On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
By selling wine in such large quantities, the company boosts its average spend per customer.
Once a system is in place, it should be maintained through audits and further spending if required. Computing
His hand was frozen, suspended in mid-air, the necklace barely dangling off it.
The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
Successive governments are accused of prioritising the motorist by cutting vehicle taxes for fuel-efficient models and spending billions on road building. Times, Sunday Times
Around 6,000 were jailed for their beliefs, some spending months in solitary confinement. The Sun
Consumer spending on sports-related items amounted to ￡9.75 billion.
They cannot fly or dive yet and they spend the next few weeks just floating about. Times, Sunday Times
Females ovulate only after spending several days with a male and then mate several times over several days to ensure fertilization.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is aiming for annual average GDP growth of 6.6 percent through the remainder of his term ending in 2014, partly by boosting spending on roads, railways and ports. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
No “do not suspend” order on file, so he was placed in cryogenic suspension. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
They had to spend at least 18 months living in rented accommodation while their shattered homes were rebuilt.
You very quickly realise the power and violence of the fluid movements in which you are suspended. Times, Sunday Times
Anyone from the mainland U.S. who has spent enough time in Hawaii often gets the message, "O.K. haole, come here, spend your money and then go home."
This time around, spending caps may not be enough.
He identifies higher infrastructure spending and a rapidly expanding middle class as two key factors behind this growth. Times, Sunday Times
Now more and more city adults spend their leisure time trying to improve themselves at school or college.
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
U shouldn't spend ur money like water.
Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Case dismissed, and the prosecutor gets to spend the night in the pokey for charging against the film.
There is skepticism about the impact and the unrestraint spending they're seeing out of this democratic Congress. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009
The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year.
When we came up for the first time, there wasn't much made of rustication (being suspended from the university for a set period).
Mainland authorities are banking on consumer spending to provide a bulwark against weaker capital investment and to broaden the economy's base of growth.
The new casino hopes to attract big spenders .
Techies are used to spending an ungodly amount of time mining virtual coins in online games.
But high command has yet again told them to leave the Bolly in the ice bucket, not least because it would look terrible to be seen quaffing champers when the chancellor will soon unveil the severest squeeze on public spending in decades. The Tories are still struggling to come to terms with the new order
The parole officer would then be in a position to immediately suspend the long-term supervision order, or in the case of a parolee, revoke the parole.
Consumer spending accounts for about two thirds of national output. Times, Sunday Times
Spend six months wading through the Byzantine regulations and rules that radio stations must comply with to keep their licences.
One employee was suspended without pay for two weeks and another was put on three-month probation.
But Dave says absolutely no serious shopping before the comprehensive spending review, which is the tiniest bit unfair, I told Mummy, because no one looks at Manuela and counts up what she spends on all her funny shirts and cardies, they can't if they never see her. Mrs Cameron's diary
We EXPECT this kind of flim flam stuff from the tax & spenders .. an we USED to DEPEND on the Republicans to be the grown up with budgets. The right-wing liberal
The minor 'phobias, such as pyrophobia, or fear of fire; stasophobia, or inability to arise and walk, the victims spending all their time in bed; toxicophobia or fear of poison, etc., will be left to the reader's inspection in special works on this subject. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
People spend a fortune on that. Times, Sunday Times
Twenty years ago all the guesthouses and hotels would be full of holidaymakers - people spending and happy to be there. The Sun
They argue that the main culprits have been local authorities and that their spending must be further curtailed.
Additionally, I ruined it by spending the entirety of my meal making promises to myself of a tomorrow full of extra situps and a bowlful of lettuce for lunch.
There is no chance that deflationary pressures brought on by collapsing commodity prices will persuade consumers to defer spending. Times, Sunday Times
The result should be on-the-fly brand research that enables you to re-craft your messaging mid-campaign as well as giving you a tool to focus the keyword lexicon, or banner and display spend. Forbes.com: News
But consumer confidence has plunged by the biggest amount for two years on fears over tax hikes and Government spending cuts. The Sun
We'll just have to suspend our disbelief. Times, Sunday Times
The unsuspended prison sentence is rare for white-collar crimes of this nature. Times, Sunday Times
Without attention spans we will never see what is really there and we will spend all of our time concerned with the ideas and things that the illuminati want us to waste our times with rather than seeing the bigger picture.
Never mind York's links with Europe, the city's business people spend more time gabbing on the blower to Americans than they do to French or Germans.
My position on euthanasia is actually derived from the ancient Greek one; that is, I am generally in favour of allowing it, as long as the person being euthanized is in perfectly sound mental condition, not non compos mentis, and has positively re-affirmed his decision at least three times over the period of at least a suspended period of time to allow for reconsideration (say 15 or 30 days). Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion
The main drivers of this long-term fiscal gap are, in order, the spending growth associated with Medicare and Medicaid, the revenue losses from the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and increases in Social Security costs ... Economists' Voice on Fiscal Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
He was standing in the doorway, wearing a frown and a soiled T-shirt, his large belly protruding over his pants, held up by a pair of suspenders.
You'd think vacations would be no-brainers - opportunities to get paid for not working, spending time with family or friends, and recharging creative juices.
The project was suspended because of the shortage of fund.
She and her brother Joe, 25, were visiting Anna who was spending a gap year there.
I spend most Saturdays doing odd jobs around the house.
These are people who spend considerable chunks of their lives trying to make the world a better place. Times, Sunday Times
Worries about cutbacks in government spending are understandable. Times, Sunday Times
In the meantime, down the road in Piraeus where Melina Mercouri was filmed in 1960 singing a song about her sacred day off from work called Never On A Sunday, the Chinese last June took over full control of the major container dock, pledging to spend $700 million to construct a new pier and upgrade existing docks. Vanessa Andris: Greece: Never on a Sunday But Bail Us Out on Monday? Defeat or Development
"The proposal is not meant to provide additional funds to finance government spending, " it said.
Companies that have a lasting commitment to their people will generally spend time arranging redeployment of their affected employees.
This year the Cohen clan may be spending Christmas a little bit closer to home.
The company was playing with fire yesterday by spending time reassuring investors worried about the dividend. Times, Sunday Times
My mind boggles at the amount of money they spend on food.
The children are spending a week at a summer camp.
Monetary reform initially dawdled along so slowly that the International Monetary Fund has suspended its bail-out funding.
I remember not wanting to spend time there, due to the lack of a proper playground area to play in.
But after spending three years recording his album 'Inspiration Information,' it flopped, his label dumped him, and Otis ran into drug and health problems. Spinner
What about encouraging student nurses to spend time in nursery schools or elderly care homes? Times, Sunday Times
CAMDEN - Trash collection will be suspended Saturday in parts of Camden due to an expected snowstorm. CourierPostOnline.com - News
Some of the dogs are poorly fed or underfed, perhaps because after spending a lot of money to buy them, their owners do not want to spend any more to get them proper food.
A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
Too many clubs seem to be spending ridiculous amounts based on projected incomes which are not just unrealistic but beyond the realms of fantasy.
Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
The curtain is suspended from a covered curtain wire or a thin curtain pole. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
Rather than stones, organic objects like birds wings, bones, crayfish and seeds, are suspended several inches above a mud pathway.
Given the state of the telecoms equipment market, it's no surprise to hear that this area was hit by a drop-off in spending and customer destocking.
Justly indignant at our folly, for quarrelling is not allowed in his domains, the King laid us under sentence of banishment, decreeing that we should spend the fifteenth night of each month in this dreary forest until a tailor came who could mend the garments we had torn. Folk Tales From Many Lands
The students spend the whole spring term on teaching practice.
So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid. Excommunicated from the Ummah?
And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries. The Sun
Dolphin added: "The only pledge that we would preserve is higher funding for international development, not only because it is a relatively small amount of spending (although it is) but in recognition of the urgency of providing more funds to low-income countries badly hit by a financial crisis not of their making. Don't spare the NHS from cuts, says leftwing thinktank
Courts will only interfere with a spending decision of a public authority in the most unusual circumstances.
Following the evening sessions, there was a Cafe opened in the fellowship hall so that everyone could have a light meal and spend time visiting old friends, and making new ones.
So you have a vast discrepancy between what Ferrari can spend compared to Minardi.
Spending the week on an allowance is something that I am going to try to do from now on. The Sun
Why the f**k should I spend 8 years getting a PhD in biochem or engineering when I have to compete with a bunch of Chinese and Indian immigrants who are happy to make $30,000 for the next ten years of postdoc purgatory? Matthew Yglesias » Visas for Grads
During training you can spend time working on your techniques and I am positive that it has helped my game.
What if I have to spend tomorrow, yet again, in that weird state of tearful, jet-lagged exhaustion that lack of sleep creates?
Many members of the Dail Eireann spend an excessive amount of time and effort in the constituency, but this has been more related to Irish political culture than the electoral system.
It is scandalous that we still allocate scarce homeland security dollars on the basis of pork barrel spending and not on risk.
The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
I'm just going to spend a penny.
It's a serious argument over whether to increase spending on public services or to lift people out of poverty.
As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
In some states, a fifth of the attorneys who have represented defendants in capital cases have subsequently been suspended, disbarred or arrested.
A reduction in military spending was also proposed so funds could be channeled toward countrywide primary education for all children.
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. Steve Martin
As an unrepentant internet devotee, I spend a lot of time rootling around cyberspace seeking out the edifying and unusual.
Earthworms spend most of their time reproducing, eating and excreting, which is where their Hattiesburgamerican.com -
They spend four years combining university study with working at the firm's nearby offices, then two years working towards a chartered accountancy qualification. Times, Sunday Times
It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
Members of the Monodactylidae family are marine fish that spend a portion of their lives in fresh or brackish water.
Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.
The young fish spend at least a year in the natal stream before moving downstream to the sea or into lakes.
Earlier this week the Northern Regional Health Authority announced new spending allocations for the region's 15 district health authorities.
They would also be offered the opportunity to spend time at a center for teaching effectiveness, working to strengthen their pedagogic skills with the guidance of master teachers.
Recto said infrastructure spending in the region would mostly be on transportation and agriculture.
Death s inevitable.It's a promise made to each of us at birth.But before that promise is kept,we all hope something will happen to us,whether it is the thrill of romance,the joy of raising a family,or the anguish of great loss.We all hope to experience something that make our lives meaningful,but the sad fact is,not all lives have meaning.Some people spend their time on this planet just sitting on the sidelines,waiting for something to happen to them,before it's too late.
Still relatively pricey, but much more affordable than spending tens of thousands of pounds on your own polo pony. Times, Sunday Times
The two other plants where operations are suspended are the Takasaki plant in Gunma Prefecture and the Kofu plant in Yamanashi Prefecture, which together account for about 15% of the company's early-stage chip production capacity. Chip Maker Runs at Half Speed
People are getting squeezed and they are spending less. The Sun
The mobility of electrons is influenced by cellular metabolism and the concentration of charged particles suspended in body fluid.
More than three-quarters (77%) admitted they spend less than 5 minutes reading each resume; 56% devote less than 60 seconds to each one.

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