Sentence examples for i spent for from inspiring English sources

This is what I spent for my teachers' gifts 30 years ago as a student.

"They provided me with everything I need to play golf, and whatever I earned, I spent for golf.

That sum, by the way, equals what I spent for my last Volvo station wagon, a warrior that survived five years of Ikea sorties and lumber yard runs.

To the Editor: About three years ago, after being a litigator for more than 35 years, I spent, for the first time, a day at the Supreme Court listening to oral argument.

I spent – for example – Saturday evening, Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday tickling, wheedling, gnawing and praying through my last 200 pages – again – before crumpling like a wet manifesto and texting a chum in another time zone for moral support.

To calculate the day's budget, I also factored in the amount I spent for dinner and entertainment on Saturday night, my first night in Paris, at Le Petit Journal jazz club on the Boulevard St.-Michel St.-Micheleard three sets of 1950's jazz in a cavelike boîte ($32.50 for the cover, aperitif and dinner plate of salade niçoise).

For my emergency phone, I spent $100 for 1,000 T-Mobile minutes, which are good for one year.

"I spent $500 for a commercial and I was on TV for 30 seconds," he said.

I've known him for forty-eight years, a dozen of which I spent toiling for him at TNR.

I spent $55 for my two kids".

He told me, "I spent five thousand for this car.