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.
v. 1. pass (time) in a specific way 2. pay out 3. spend completely. 
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241. We spend most of our time communicating in some form or other.
242. The report shows that poor families spend a larger proportion of their income on food.
243. We must account for every penny we spend during a business trip.
244. You get a free gift if you spend more than £20.
245. The teenagers spend two weeks on work experience in local businesses.
246. He has been known to spend all morning in the bathroom.
247. The less time I have to spend being civil to him the better!
248. Slow music encourages supermarket-shoppers to browse longer but spend more.
249. In order for me to spend three months on something it has to interest me personally.
250. We're all agreed that we cannot spend what we have not earned.
251. She seemed to spend her life flitting from one country to another.
252. With young children,[http://sentencedict.com/spend.html] you spend a lot of your time chauffeuring them around to all their various activities.
253. I spend so much money on this car. For two pins I'd sell it.
254. You'll have to spend a small fortune in legal fees if you decide to sue for compensation.
255. I must move to a larger house or spend money extending this one; either will be expensive, so I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea.
256. I don't want to spend ages discussing the rights and wrongs of all this.
257. He would spend hours in the bathroom or on the telephone.
258. It was considered impolitic of him to spend too much time with the party radicals.
259. If you'll excuse me, I need to spend a penny.
260. The horse had to spend several months in quarantine when it reached Britain.
261. The time you spend on it doesn't, for all practical purposes, affect the final result.
262. He will complain about having to spend time with such a boring bunch of geriatrics.
263. It's just typical of Ian to spend all that money on the equipment and then lose interest half way through the course.
264. Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove .
265. He's my old man and I love him to bits but I can spend too much time with him.
266. Most rock groups spend two or three months a year on the road.
267. We love each other. We want to spend our lives together.
268. You can find a nice house in this neighborhood, and you don't have to spend a whole lot.
269. You spend a ridiculous length of time in the bath.
270. How would you like to spend the summer in Italy?
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.