Sentence examples for 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".

He has spent himself and is visibly weakened.

Having perhaps spent himself too early in the race by attacking solo and not working with other riders to gain a large time gap, Cancellara could only manage third of the three.

Who spends himself in a worthy cause.

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.