6 sentences with 'spends'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spends and other words derived from it.
• « Still, if he spends a few hours listening to music he doesn't like, he will please his wife. Isn't that a small price to pay for the gift of joy? »
• « Otzi's body spends most of its time in a computer-controlled stainless steel cabinet at a constant temperature of minus 6 degrees Celsius. He is never taken out of his chamber for more than 30 minutes, as it would be attacked by micro-organisms that could destroy his miraculously preserved tissues. »
• « I also suspect that if a city slicker spends a couple of weeks walking the country roads, he will end up waving in the same way as a milkman, a cowboy, a lumberjack or a beekeeper... or a giddy stranger like me. »
• « Although the volcano spends most of its "life" at rest, it is considered to be definitively extinguished if its inactivity lasts around 1,000,000 years, which implies a precise reconstruction of its history. This is almost impossible, because the data are "engraved" in the successive deposits of the volcano, buried under the recent layers. »
• « Norma Major spends a day or two each week at 10 Downing Street, but her home remains the four-bedroom house they share in the village of Great Stukeley, within John's constituency, some 100 kilometres north of London. »