to spend
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- verb
- /spɛnd/
- I like to spend my weekends reading books.
- spend time
- spend time thinking
- spend hours
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Watch on YouTubeBut it might mean that you shouldn't spend as much time with them.
- But it might mean that you shouldn't spend as much time with them.
- We would see two, we would spend hours with one person.
- Anyway, guys, thank you for spending this Friday with us.
- So that's how Trump has spent his time since Election Day.
- But he was spending much of his time.
- I would have been fine, but I'd spent seven years locked up.
- What a delicious way to spend our lives.
- How much of your time do you spend hating your work?
- You know, I, I had spent hours with Ruth, his wife.
- So that's how we've been spending our Valentine's Day, right?
- How much time do ducks spend by water?
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Participants were then asked to give the amount of time spent on intense physical activity in minutes.
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How much time do you tend to spend with a patient?
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And it's people have got to spend time looking for it.
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We would see two, we would spend hours with one person.
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And then how do I spend my time right now?
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We seem to have spent so much time on this question.
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It's one of the programs where I have been spending a lot of my time.
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I sometimes feel like I spend so much time working alone in my home office.
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Indeed, most of us probably spend little time counting the number of words we write.
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I'm grateful for the time that I spent with you.
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Spend for time grew from the same idea as paying out things; a helpful way to remember is to think of time as something you 'pay' for. So, to spend an afternoon is to use that part of your day doing an activity.