Sentence examples for spent simply from inspiring English sources

Almost all the money for such a mission would be spent simply to keep the people alive.

Much of his design process was spent simply contemplating an object, and he once spent a holiday at a Zen monastery in Japan.

Millions of dollars have been spent simply trying to keep soldiers warm there though hundreds have frozen to death anyway with India clinging on to a ridge of no conceivable strategic use.

Hackett said that players' biggest improvement usually comes between the first and second year of playing the West Coast offense, because the first year is spent simply trying to learn the complicated scheme.

It is a big change from her non-celebrity life, spent simply in a one-room hut with a slate roof, where the only sounds on a recent summer day were from a rain-swollen brook, occasional military jets flying overhead and cicadas rioting in the nearby persimmon trees.

The irony was, of course, that he (and his team) spent more time sorting through the input than they would have spent simply developing a good idea themselves.

It was based on the proposition that "people are uninformed because no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend simply keeping informed".

And at the end of the day, the €10,000 prize isn't much more than they would spend simply going out and hiring a designer directly.

So, while we try and track down the soundtrack to this one, if you've got six minutes and fifteen seconds to spend simply smiling (and making the most out of those few fleeting moments!), enjoy Luminaris.

But I spent years simply working on one scene, and running aground, and eventually setting it aside.

I spent hours simply looking at landscape, educating my eye to see its particular beauty.