Synonym: consume, exhaust, expend, finish off, lay out, pay out, use. Antonym: earn. Similar words: suspend, spending, depending, dependent, independent, independence, open, openly. Meaning: [spend] v. 1. pass (time) in a specific way 2. pay out 3. spend completely.
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181. The kids spend too much time in front of the boob tube.
182. It always seems like the more I earn, the more I spend.
183. She contrived to spend a couple of hours with him every Sunday evening.
184. Children spend so much time in front of the television set.
185. You can be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction and spend more than you planned.
186. Clearly, the amount of money people save increases in inverse proportion to the amount they spend.
187. It's nice having a man who actively encourages me to spend money.
188. She can spend a whole day gossiping with her neighbours.
189. Let's spend another half an hour painting and then have done with it.
190. Suppose you had a million pounds how would you spend it?
191. After qualifying, doctors spend at least two years working in hospitals.
192. I spend a lot of time in Brussels,[http://sentencedict.com/spend.html] but London is still my base.
193. We'll have to spend the night here, so we might as well make the best of it.
194. Children spend too much time on schoolwork, to the detriment of other activities.
195. This phenomenon, sometimes called wanderlust, may explain why people spend so much time and money on trips to interesting places.
196. At the end of a workout spend time cooling down with some slow stretches.
197. There was much lively debate about whether women should spend more time in the home.
198. We have settled on a place to spend the vacation.
199. What frustrates him is that there's too little money to spend on the project.
200. Flexible working hours could give working parents more time to spend with their children.
201. He likes to spend his time chatting up the local talent.
202. I hope Adrian's actually doing some work at college - he seems to spend all his time socializing!
203. As a general rule of thumb, children this age should not spend more than one hour on homework.
204. People have a right to decide how to spend their own money.
205. Reputable charities spend the lion's share of donations on aid and a tiny fraction on administration.
206. Families with children spend proportionally less per person than families without children.
207. She came initially to spend a few days, but in the end she stayed for a whole month.
208. If you give the police his name, you'll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder, wondering when he'll find you.
209. I'm meant to be on an economy drive at the moment, so I'm trying not to spend too much.
210. These days, designers spend more time at the computer than at the drawing board.
More similar words: suspend, spending, depending, dependent, independent, independence, open, openly, pencil, happen, expense, pension, opening, penalty, penance, happen to, in the open, compensation, compensate for, speak, speed, spell, whisper, end, speed up, aspect, at the expense of, bend, on end, send.