Sentence examples for spent under from inspiring English sources

A year spent under cover as a rookie correction officer.

The first 44 years of her life were spent under Soviet rule.

They put this down in part to the longer period these islands spent under colonial rule.

Mr Graff reckons that all the millions spent under CalFed have in fact bought little.

Time spent under these unpleasant conditions paradoxically seems shorter than normal time.

And, after a night that Paris spent under siege, it felt wrong.

Up by the main square, pastel-coloured buildings recall the centuries Crete spent under Venetian rule.

His pallor speaks of a life spent under spotlights, not sunlight.

Billions, for example, have been spent under Schwarzenegger for controversial embryonic stem-cell research.

The amount of money that will actually be spent under the ATS remains a matter of contention.

Time spent under the same roof steadily erodes Holly and Messer's mutual loathing, and the rom-com inevitable happens.