Sentence examples for existence spending from inspiring English sources

Most amphibians lead a dual existence, spending part of their life in water, part on land.

Between 1828 and 1834 Balzac led a tumultuous existence, spending his earnings in advance as a dandy and man-about-town.

"Too many children are living a 'battery hen' existence, spending more and more time sitting in front of screens and less time outside playing.

His student days set the pattern for the rest of his life and he freely admitted living a split existence, spending his days as a campaigning left-wing socialist and his nights wining and dining with the great and the good of Oxford.

It may seem fun to live the carefree "MePa" existence, spending $50 on cocktails and $40,000 on shoes, and never taking the subway because you got rich writing stories about your friends' sexual encounters.

Coming home in 1991 to an existence spent shuttling among rented studios, the dance group dreamed of recreating the life to which it had grown accustomed.

His weary depiction of an existence spent scraping by in between failed relationships was shot through with the type of misanthropic humour that puts Pekar's work on a par with Woody Allen, Larry David or a supremely irate New York cab driver.

Common to tribe members old and young was a kind of dysfunctional existence spent living vicariously through the windows of a comic book, and a fanatical devotion to manufactured pop groups such as the phenomenally successful, 48-member-strong girl group, AKB48.

In this shaky but likable production of Noel Coward's deeply sentimental play from 1960, Ms. Harris plays a former West End star who now lives in royal exile in a theater retirement home, and her performance evokes a whole existence spent before footlights: every lofty, delicate gesture registers like a thunderclap.

There's a terrific scene in which a group of players wander among other students and revel in their status as athletes on a mission, speculating on the grimness of an existence spent as (I paraphrase) just a guy with just a job.

In 2011, Existence spent a year shopping only at Goodwill and in 2012 she spent the year living the Parents magazine life.