spent
IPA: spˈɛnt
adjective
- Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
- Of fish: exhausted as a result of having spawned.
- (law, chiefly UK) Of legislation or an enactment: no longer in force due to all of its provisions having expired or been completed.
- (law, chiefly UK) Of a conviction: no longer appearing on a person's criminal record.
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Examples of "spent" in Sentences
- Fearless album, and last week the title spent its 26th week at #1 on
- I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half.
- : I guess a quarter of the time of the term spent campaigning is better than half.
- If any of the time that this title spent in production limbo was spent on improving its dub, it doesn't show.
- The Differential Calculus is begun and the remainder of the term spent on exercises in differentiation of functions.
- Jay Hammond, who in the last two years of his term spent six weeks a year at his remote Lake Clark homestead, according to his former chief of staff, Jerry Reinwand.
- Joseph Jackson didn't read the contract he signed for the boys; he thought he was committing them for one year but in effect Motown locked them in for five; their royalty rate amounted to roughly a dime per album -- say $100,000 for a million records sold -- minus whatever the label spent on the band, for recording and just about anything else.
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