Examples of spent in a Sentence

he plopped down in his chair, completely spent, and then fell asleep

Recent Examples on the Web Weeks of fierce combat transformed the airport into a dystopian post-battle debris field, strewn with spent ammunition, rockets, Russian ration boxes, gas masks, and burned and tattered uniforms. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022 Choosing the wrong platform can be a big mistake in spent dollars and lost time. — Ketan Pandit, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022 Nuclear regulators said a fire alarm went off at Fukushima’s Dai-ichi nuclear plant, and that water pumps used to cool spent fuel pool at the Dai-ni plant were halted, although there was no imminent danger. — Kana Nishizawa, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022 It’s most likely a spent stage from the Chinese rocket Chang’e-5. — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022 But we were clearly attracted to each other and spent time talking outside of class. — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2022 Water lingers in pools below sheer cliffs and in glassy rivulets flush with spent cottonwood leaves. — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022 These also carried mail, packages, as well as the cinders and ash from spent coal. — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021 High metals prices can be problematic for companies like L&F too, and that’s spurring efforts on battery recycling to recover raw materials from spent packs, according to Choi. — David Stringer, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2021 See More

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