Spreading mulch before the ground has frozen may attract small animals searching for a warm place to spend the winter.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

For many Americans, summer is a time to put on swim wear and spend time at the sea or a lake.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Glenn's flight plan called for him to spend most of the first orbit getting used to the feeling of being weightless.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He was known for being so stingy he refused to spend any of his money, unless forced to do so.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

The Obama administration is proposing to spend ten billion dollars over the next ten years to set nutrition rules for schools.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Popeye is a criminal,a man who "made money and had nothing he could do with it,spend it for."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

The government proposes to spend up to sixteen billion dollars on a wireless network for public safety agencies.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Virgin Galactic expects to spend more than four hundred million dollars for five commercial spaceships and launch vehicles.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

It found many ways to spend it. For example, Congress raised payments to soldiers who had fought in the Civil War during the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

"I don't want to spend more than twenty dollars for a backpack." Consumer spending is seventy percent of the economic activity in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Or they have to spend or lay out more money than they want for something.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

She says she will spend more time on her film career for a while.

VOA: special.2010.08.06