Sentence examples for spend himself from inspiring English sources

What remains to be seen is whether Barbour can spend himself local.

6 The poet must spend himself with warmth, glamour and prodigality to increase the enthusiastic fervour of the primordial elements.

He said he was prepared to raise $40 million, an atypically high amount, but would not say how much he was prepared to spend himself.

Where Peter Sellers — who worshipped Guinness, and scrutinized him avidly when they worked on "The Ladykillers" (1955) — would spend himself in a fury of impersonation, Guinness gave no hint of a hollow core.

By the end of the bitter campaign, some $3.5m was spent by outside lobby groups channeling undisclosed corporate money to support Prosser's re-election – more than eight times the $400,000 the judge was allowed to spend himself.

He is the very rare participant in the Israeli-Palestinian disputation who does not spend himself in fits of self-justification; the rights and the wrongs, in his view, are cruelly distributed across all the sides in this apparently ceaseless conflict.

Who spends himself in a worthy cause.

Napoleon had spent himself and his troops to achieve only a postponement of defeat.

In this he quoted Theodore Roosevelt about the value of being "the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood" and who "spends himself in a worthy cause". After spending himself in a long political career, Mr. Nixon is scheduled to fly to his home in San Clemente, Calif., and retirement tomorrow while Mr. Ford is being sworn in the Oval Office.

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".

And every team owner spends himself silly.