Sentence examples for he spent himself from inspiring English sources

Frost was a little like the anonymous woodsman he describes in "The Wood Pile": always "turning to fresh tasks," forgetting "his handiwork on which / He spent himself, the labour of his axe".

Frost was a little like the anonymous woodsman he describes in "The Wood Pile": always "turning to fresh tasks," forgetting "his handiwork on which / He spent himself, the labour of his axe". Only he didn't forget.

He spent himself in the service of his country and so, of course, that was my job to do that.

He has spent himself and is visibly weakened.

Some of his money he spent on himself, on clothes and wigs.

In the years he spent teaching himself to be an artist, Van Gogh drew and painted the backbreaking realities of rural life in the Netherlands.

So what passes as a reckless binge for Eric Kennie – a splurge on about $10 worth of fried chicken – is less than half of what he spent getting himself a copy of his birth certificate.

He matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1888 and graduated with a second-class degree in history in 1892; again he was not noted as a particularly outstanding student, which was attributed to the time he spent enjoying himself rather than studying.

He spent $30,000 to defend himself, but it's not the money that bothers him the most.

His interests in clocks and the diversity of clockwork brought him to the New York Public Library at 42nd and 5th Avenue where he spent years educating himself in the history of mechanical clocks, and their technological changes over the centuries.

But given the amount of time he spends putting himself in harm's way for the sake of his convictions, it's hard to begrudge him a little worship.