Sentence examples for spent themselves to from inspiring English sources

They may have spent themselves to a stalemate in Washington.

They are always calculatingly happy to let the Yankees spend themselves silly to the point of stupid.

At least when Ronald Reagan pushed his faux shield, it was a way to get the Soviets to spend themselves into oblivion.

We're looking for ways to cut Britain's overall tax burden so ordinary families have more of their money to spend themselves".

Again, there's something sensible, even vaguely patriotic, about buying stuff, even after people used cheap credit to spend themselves into a ditch.

They have tried hard to spend themselves out of their problems, amassing one of the largest payrolls in the National Basketball Association at $93 million.

It's not as if a true 5% rule would force them to spend themselves into oblivion (although that would be a fitting fate for some of these institutions).

When placed into a novel environment, such as an open field, the mutants display significantly increased locomotor activity with minimal time spent habituating themselves to the environment, and less time engaged in licking and grooming behavior.

Bothered by Republican criticism that his spending plan was a "tax and spend" budget, Mr. Suozzi accused the opposition of trying to raise spending themselves, pandering to the unions and currying favor with pet projects.

"Some people have had to go to great lengths to prove that they can't do their job after they've spent weeks forcing themselves to go to work when they could barely get out of bed".

* * * Christmas could cause financial hardships for parents this year a charity has warned, with three out of five having previously cut back on spending on themselves to buy Christmas or birthday presents for their children.