Sentence examples for spent from high-quality English sources.

• Bernie Sanders has spent on ads.

• Saccone had more than $14 million spent on his behalf.

• The remaining £90m will be spent over the following three years.

• In 2017, the NRA spent at least $4.1m on lobbying – more than the $3.1m it spent in all of 2016.

• One study even showed that only about three hours of the day are spent working.

• Money spent on military operations cannot be spent on other foreign or domestic initiatives.

• It revealed that Shell spent €36.5m and BP spent €18.1m lobbying Brussels officials to shape EU climate policy.

• And of the tiny number of hours spent manually flying the plane, almost all would have been spent taking off or landing.

Use spent in a sentence.

• Bloomberg of New York spent a staggering $188 million, while the former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer spent $154 million.

• In total $4.5bn is being spent, of which $3.5bn will be spent on upgrades to fibre-to-the-node, fibre-to-the-curb and cable connections.

• But if you compare the amount spent on the NHS with the amount spent by the US government on public healthcare, the difference is much smaller.

• The Biden campaign has a similar advantage on Facebook, where it spent $4.2 million over the past week, while President Trump’s team spent $2.4 million.

• Spending is nearly even on Facebook, as the Biden campaign spent $3.7 million over the past week while the Trump team spent $3.2 million on the platform.

• So much valuable time is spent within families in unpaid household labour, for instance, spent raising children and cooking, cleaning, and caring for them.

• But according to several estimations, she spent more on clothing than other royals in the past year — Kate Middleton, for example, reportedly spent $85,000 on clothing.

• In 1998, according to the OECD, the Netherlands spent 8.7% of GDP on health, Italy spent 8.2%, Austria spent 8% and Britain spent just 6.8%.

spent sentence examples

• By comparison, Facebook spent $19.6 million, Microsoft spent $9.4 million, and Google's parent company Alphabet spent $8.8 million in federal lobbying in 2020.

• When they reached their late 20s, homeowners born in the early 1980s spent 15% of their income on mortgage interest payments, compared with the 28% spent by renters of the same age.

• “In Germany in 2018 they spent more on marketing SUVs than on any other segment; they actually spent as much as they spent on other segments together” says Von Dassel.

• With the World of Hyatt card, you'll earn 4 points per dollar spent on purchases at all Hyatt hotels; 2 points per dollar spent at restaurants, on airline tickets purchased directly from the airline, local transit and commuting, and fitness club and gym memberships; and 1 point per dollar spent everywhere else.