Sentence examples for merely spent from inspiring English sources

Many people who came for the gathering merely spent a languid day in the sun on Windrush Square, where performances, speeches and food stalls contributed to a carnival-like atmosphere.

She's been gone eight years, and when he greets her again — thank you, tear in the space-time continuum — they both behave as if one or the other merely spent too much time going out for a bagel.

When you can't quite make out whether she's dead by strangulation, or is merely spent by the emotional excesses of getting anally raped and discovering to her surprise that it's not so much a violation as an acquired taste, isn't that what being human is all about?

Trump was in New York City anyway to participate in an MSNBC candidates forum, and merely spent about an hour visiting an event that was happening already.

Rather, they understand that the tax code is riddled with special-interest provisions that are merely spending by another name.

While Time Inc. executives privately characterized Meredith executives in the last week as being cheap on everything from compensation to their magazines' spending on paper stock, former Meredith executives say the company merely spends wisely.

He also called on government to set a better example on pay and to grasp the benefits of ending working poverty rather than merely spending billions topping up low incomes.

But merely spending money may have no more than a temporary effect.

Hausmann and Vanlehn (2007) addressed the possibility that generating explanations is beneficial because learners merely spend more time with the content material than learners who are not required to generate an explanation.

Importantly, however, school districts must not merely spend to meet today's demands.

And fourth, and perhaps most importantly, government cannot merely spend money into the private sector without choosing where and how to spend it.