Sentence examples for self spent from inspiring English sources

My 10-year-old self spent more time sniggering at The Song of Songs, whispering in sermons and scoffing – in almost third-world desperation – dark chocolate digestive biscuits before Matins than should ever be considered healthy.

The complexity of the leg-before-wicket dismissal is so evolved that my teenage self spent as much time figuring it out as she did learning to solve quadratic equations.

All of which makes it even more baffling that Obama's presidential alter-ego, this grayer and more somber version of his literary self, spent the past four years immersed in legislative minutiae and marching out dull slogans — "an economy built to last," "winning the future" and so on — while failing to advance any larger theory of the moment confronting the country and what it required.

After "So Long Self" spent its fourth and final weeks at the top, the song spent nine more weeks on the chart before dropping out.

His phantasmal self spends the rest of the show -- which is directed by Matthew Warchus -- trying to make contact with Molly.

or you might find your self spending all your free time playing it.

Paradoxically, those who self-tested, rather than self-managed, spent more time in TTR (and had more minor bleeding events), but those who self-managed experienced less thromboembolic events.

Watching the film, Mr. Yassky, who was seated by a reporter, revealed a bit of that younger self who spent hours at the Thalia.

Sherry Turkle, the director of the M.I.T. Initiative on Technology and Self, has spent three decades considering the ways in which technology affects relationships, thought, and attachment.

The self-employed spent more than four times as many hours and dollars on their returns as those with only wages to report.

Between Jon Snow, papers, Newsnight and ABC News from America, Self will spend 3.5 hours per day consuming news, most of which Self will instantly forget.