How to use "spend" in a sentence

I plan to spend the whole of Monday biking along the White Rim Trail

I spend most of the day chipping, resting, and counting the minutes before my next drink of water.

'Don't spend it on rum,' she told Annie

The man looked around, desperate for somewhere to spend the night

If he's found guilty of stealing from the bishop - who, as you know, died a couple of years ago - and of robbing the small boy, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.'

But he had to spend the next two months resting because of the damage to his shoulder

I won't allow you to spend another day here.'

They want to ski in the spring, hike in the summer and spend their money in the hotel bar and the spa

I had thought we would spend our first morning at Manderley together.

She took time off to carry and give birth to Danny, then to spend uninterrupted days with him during his first few months of life

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"

"During the year, I'm going to send special invitations to the married ones, asking them to spend their anniversaries here, with everything comped for three days

You need to spend time with the deceased, enough to accept that the body is never going to be animated again."

The conversations were like those in which he was involved at work, eight or ten hours a day, five days a week and he didn't intend to spend a holiday nattering about the same damned things.

He had a few chores to finish before she came, so they wouldn't have to spend a lot of time doing galley labor as they had done last night

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

Regulations on banks and real estate agents and on everyone else - except casino owners - are less troublesome here than in other states, which takes a burden off everybody, but which is especially attractive to people trying to spend and invest dirty cash

His ships, sealed in their glass worlds, relaxed him; he liked to spend time with them when he had a problem to work out or when he was on edge, for they made him feel serene, and that security allowed his mind to function at peak performance.

You don't spend much time cleaning a room, do you?" And she pointed at some dust on the table

He was very excited at the news and invited me to spend the night with him, watching the red planet.

I'll go and spend a week with my mother!'

We stopped there and decided to spend the night on the boat

We decided to return to one of the Shiplake islands to spend the night.

Or, we can have dinner and spend an hour in a pub,' I said.

A drawing teacher must spend his life in the company of beautiful women who can never be his