How to use "spent" in a sentence

I've spent the last eighteen hours alone

1.00 pm I've spent four hours trying to lift the boulder, but nothing has worked.

All I have for the time I've spent on this is a long red line across my right arm

I feel happy and start thinking of all the wonderful times I've spent with friends and family

'I've spent five years in prison for violent robbery, another fourteen years for trying to escape four times

Fantine spent whole nights crying

Valjean gave Cosette lessons in reading and writing, and spent hours watching her as she dressed and undressed her doll

Valjean spent all day making preparations to leave

He spent the next two nights walking around the garden, checking the gate, listening for noises, but nothing unusual happened.

Cosette spent a long time in front of the mirror, making her hair look beautiful and deciding which dress to wear

The poor man, unable to understand the kindness and gentle nature of the man he had spent his whole life hating, had taken his own life by jumping from a bridge

While you've been ill, she's spent her time crying and making bandages for you

That he was Jean Valjean, a criminal who had spent nineteen years in prison and who had stolen silver candlesticks from a trusting and kind-hearted bishop

'Did you know that he spent nineteen years in prison?'

'I've spent a long time discovering the truth about Jean Valjean.'

When Owen was a boy of fourteen, he played rugby or football every day, he ran to the school in the village just for fun, and he spent every Sunday in the forests with his dad.

Now she spent as much time in the garden as possible, even when it was dark or raining

Sala spent every possible minute with Cham

Instead, she spent hours sitting on her bench in the Real Space, looking out over the city with a distant expression

They walked back to the simulator center and spent an hour together alone in Space 29, where they chose their waterfall illusion

He complained that Sala spent too long running, not realizing that she was waiting..

I spent the rest of the day packing and arranging the journey

'Can you tell us how Mrs de Winter spent that last day in London? Did she keep a diary?' asked Colonel Julyan.

The Lido was one of those incredibly lavish productions that could be seen nowhere in the world but Vegas, for it was only in Las Vegas that a multimillion-dollar show could be staged year after year with little concern for profit; such vast sums were spent on the elaborate sets and costumes, and on the enormous cast and crew, that the hotel was usually happy if the production merely broke even from ticket and drink sales

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

You always spent your money on fast cars, good clothes

The project became a vocation for her, and I spent nearly as much time on it as I did on my legal practice

"You've spent a small fortune here

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

That was something one tended to forget when he spent his life in the intelligence game

Although he spent more than half his time working in his Las Vegas office, he often had reason to fly to far points at the spur of the moment: Reno, Elko, even out of the state to Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah

An executive jet for the chief of the vital Nevada bureau was not an extravagance, and Alexander believed his improved performance over the past year had convinced the old man in Washington that this was money well spent.

The other three quarters of the time was spent - so it seemed to me - in a competition to come up with idiotic plot or character changes with the intention of seeing who could plunge me into the longest spell of speechlessness

I had spent more time in useless development meetings than I had required to write both of those screenplays.

She rarely answered questions and spent a lot of her time sewing, hut her favourite activity seemed to be catching flies, which she always released unharmed after examining them carefully.

There were already around forty passengers on the boat, some of whom had spent their last money getting a ticket, but the captain stayed until five in the afternoon, picking up passengers until the boat was dangerously crowded

I spent that night in the pub that stands on the top of Putney Hill, sleeping in a made bed for the first time since I had run away to Leatherhead

There I saw the work he had spent a week on

We spent the night at the Crown Hotel

We spent the night at Clifton Hampdon, which is a pretty village.

We finally arrived at Oxford and spent two excellent days there

I left his room with a feeling of relief and spent the morning looking forward to my meeting with Miss Laura Fairlie

The days and weeks at Limmeridge House passed so quickly! What a happy time that was! I spent every day in the company of two excellent ladies

The Count spent his days by the lake (I have no idea why)

The countryside and the sea reminded me of the happy months we had spent together

I spent my days drawing and selling my work at nearby shops

Sir Percival and the Count had spent all Laura's money, so we could not get it back, but the following year Mr Frederick Fairlie died, so Limmeridge House was Laura's

She spent her life writing and thinking.

In the 1980s, she spent a lot of time in prison because of her work