Sentence examples for would spend long from inspiring English sources

"I would spend long times in my room and just not come out," he says.

He would spend long hours e-mailing online friends and fleshing out his Web site with darker and darker witticisms.

He and Keith Richards would spend long nights watching the sky for UFOs (and, thanks presumably to their chemical intake, spying plenty).

And we would spend long evenings by Sean and Peggy's fireside in Burrow Cottage sipping Bordeaux and talking poetry – Sean was passionate about Yeats and Eliot.

I rarely slept and would spend long nights anxiously staring into the vacuum of my living room, feeling the walls breathe around me, smoking cigarette after cigarette, searching for the peaceful center of my hunger.

The three women – Ann, Diane and Hillary – would spend long hours plotting how to bring reform to Arkansas, a state that was routinely towards the bottom of national league tables for educational and other standards.

In Havana, I'd spend long hours contemplating a single street.

We'd spend long nights discussing art, life and politics; smoking weed, drinking lots of whisky, listening to music and throwing furniture on the fire".

According to Melania, she was raised by a family of sharecroppers and she'd spend "long days working and long nights singing and dancing on the porch" with her black family.

In his youth, the singer would apparently spend long hours in nearby Paul Marsh Records, just across the Moss Side border, saying the shop had given him "any education he has".

The description tends to confirm the image many people have of successful software entrepreneurs that they're social incompetents who would rather spend long nights with their computers than take in a football game, say, or go out on a date.