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How to use the word spent in a Sentence? Page #10

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I think we’ve spent the last year in a place of reflection, in a place of kind of prioritization to some degree, a place of anxiety, a place of like, whatever, assessment, but I’m looking around, just so, just my fiancé’s right … he’s now my husband.

Anna Faris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I got a call saying that we're not delivering to you tomorrow, or any time soon, so I started calling around, and I found what I needed at Whole Foods in Boston. And the next day I was in the car, and I spent twice as much as I would have at Sysco.

Nadav Mille

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I do not regret my decision, we spent over a trilliondollars, over 20 years.We trained and equipped withmodern equipment over 300,000Afghan forces ...they've got to fight forthemselves.

President Biden in April

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We spent a ton of energy on creating an environment where people could be heard, and feel safe to be heard.

Sarah Hirshland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Malls have certainly recovered from for the pandemic, consumer spending right now is robust. People haven't spent all of the stimulus money yet. There's pent-up demand. That's why retailers are reporting stellar numbers.

Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They were brought up in poverty, they're not in poverty because they spent all their money on drugs -- they've never had money.

Austin Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They realize if a district attorney just doesn't do their job, they can effectively accomplish left-wing criminal justice reforms without ever actually passing a law, the big players in the district attorney election funding are obviously George Soros – who other reports indicate he's spent about $19 million … But in the past couple months, I've been tallying up the numbers myself, it's actually much closer to $27 million if not $30 million since 2015 for these district attorney elections.

Parker Thayer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you look in hindsight, you could say, ‘Well, we could have used the money that we spent to rent Sleep Train and we could have put it back into the hospital system or we could have put it into procuring PPE (personal protective equipment) or any number of things,’ but these are lessons learned.

Stephanie Roberson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I spent a lifetime in the brokerage business where rebates or kickbacks were illegal, so as far as I am concerned it is a flawed business premise, it flies in the face of best execution, as mandated by regulators.

Teddy Weisberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Personally, I'm disgusted because you're right, Mark. I spent almost 35 years, I started as a Border Patrol agent on that border. I worked my work my way up the chain, rung by rung, i was the first director of ICE to actually came up through the ranks. So I spent my whole career doing this. And I can tell you without any doubt in the world that President Trump gave us the most secure border I've seen in my entire career, almost 35 years. That is just a stone-cold fact. You know, regardless if you like the man or not, he did more to secure this border than any president I've worked for…and now it's all been destroyed within weeks by the Biden administration.

Customs Enforcement Tom Homan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I spent about a month saying why I'm leaving Facebook on Facebook because Facebook is a censorship and propaganda operation, we now see what they're doing, working with the Biden administration and actually, in many respects, taking orders from the Biden administration to censor information that differs from that of the government, which is shocking and appalling.

Mark Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If I had a word to describe this whole experience, it would be surreal, from the moment we pulled out of the driveway in Boise, we have met so many incredible people at campgrounds, on hikes, through our Instagram. We learned so much from so many inspiring people and the amazing nature we have been able to spent time in. It's absolutely surreal.

Abi Roberts

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fresno County officials all want to know a definitive cause to what started Cal Fire last year, investigators spent countless hours hiking rugged terrain to determine the cause, interviewed numerous leads, and eliminated multiple potential causes. In the end, lightning remains as the probable cause.

Dean Gould

Found on CNN
2 years ago

During the first three months of 2021, the average time spent on Bumble BFF has grown 44% for women and 83% for men – which indicates that as cities are beginning to reopen, people are ready to meet new people and revive their social lives after a year of increased isolation for many, additionally, over 90% of women who initiated contact on BFF in March 2021 found at least one match.

Bumble President Tariq Shaukat

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s been difficult. a lot of the pre-snap stuff has been a big adjustment for me, but really when you break it all down and get down to the core of it, it’s really football, it’s the same, just different terminology and things like that concept-wise and footwork-wise. All of the motion is very different to me, but before I got here, me and coach (Jason) Maas spent three and a half hours a day making sure I was ready.

Said Lynch via 620 KCRM

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our early fundraising success will allow us to invest more in list building for our digital fundraising program in the month of July than was invested the entire 2020 cycle. We know that every dollar spent now results in a 5x + return down the road, this not only will help bolster our digital fundraising program for the 2022 cycle, but it's the most valuable asset we can continue to build and grow for cycles to come.

The NRSC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When using a credit card, you may be trying to track how much you spent in your head, which often results in the bill being higher than you expected. This doesn't happen when using cash or debit cards because you're parting ways with your hard-earned dollars.

Vadim Verdyan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've just spent a year where parents across the country and I can tell you parents in California have watched their kids be taught through Zoom school. And what that really meant is parents had a peek into the classroom. They're outraged as to what's being taught, and parents of all stripes are literally trying to say 'how do we upend education. How do we make sure that it's not just government run schools. We have to have school choice.

Richard Grenell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Investigators will often say that we speak for those who can’t speak for themselves, we become the victim’s voice. I spent a lot of time with Lori’s family over the course of this investigation, which lasted several years. Some of those conversations were intelligence-gathering for the investigators. Other parts of those conversations were reassurance to the family that we would get the job done.

Major Scott Champagne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Big Tech is out to get conservatives. But rather than address Republican concerns of bias and censorship on the internet, Democrats spent the last two days pushing radical antitrust legislation that will systematically change the United States economy as we know it.

Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The federal government has spent trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic. So it is absolutely the government's business, it is taxpayers' business if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping reopen the economy. And so it is our business to try to make sure Americans can prosper, Americans can freely associate.

Xavier Becerra

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Andrew Cuomo and the Democrats in Albany have spent the past 4 years dismantling our criminal justice system, undermining public safety, and even threatening the well-being of alleged assailants, to now blame the increase in violence on anyone but themselves is absurd and dishonest.

Marc Molinaro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He spent his working life in smoky and hot furnaces, for my children and grandchildren, visiting the BCLM and seeing such industries depicted will provide a legacy enabling them to understand who they are and the role their grandfather and great-grandfather played in the industrial landscape of the U.K.

Ninder Johal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's not the 30 years we've spent in this institution, it's your life's experience. It's the values from that life experience that move you to take up these efforts.

Rosa DeLauro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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