How to Use spend the night in a Sentence

spend the night

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  • Soak in the pool, watch a movie, spend the night, have a party, get a drink.
    oregonlive, 29 June 2023
  • Still, this was only the second time I’d been asked to spend the night in the study.
    Christopher Fiorello, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
  • People in the programs get to spend the night on the island.
    Gwen Filosa, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Invitations to spend the night may be a thing of the past.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Our plan was to spend the night there and start the marathon the following morning.
    Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
  • Frank, a hustler who happens to be straight, wants help with a play and needs a place to spend the night.
    Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Since 2021, diners have been able to spend the night in one of its four tiny cabins.
    Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Even so, Teixeira was forced to spend the night away from his hotel.
    Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Dunsford drove to his sister’s house to spend the night before starting the trip home.
    David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Watts allegedly told the boy that Brown was at the grocery store and that the boy was to spend the night at Watts' house.
    Pamela Engel, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • When the building gets shut down thanks to a snowstorm, they’re forced to spend the night catching up.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the story, a man borrows a young woman's arm and proceeds to spend the night with it.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • The two hop off the train in Vienna and spend the night together roaming the city.
    Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Jan. 2023
  • For people looking to get away and find the best places to eat or spend the night, costs are going up all over.
    Thomas Birmingham, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2022
  • Ryan, his friend and Corduroy would have to spend the night in the truck, and the woman would have to spend another night in her van.
    Thallman, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Do be prepared to spend the night on the mountain if necessary.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Check out sea stars in Crystal Cove State Park’s tide pools and spend the night in a rustic cottage.
    Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
  • Susann Sills was going to spend the night in Mary-Katherine's room, which was the quietest.
    Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • Students gathered at the campus pond at UMass Amherst and set up tents planning to spend the night.
    Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The property includes a red caboose where guests can spend the night.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Unknown at the time to Outlaw, the victim was planning to spend the night with his girlfriend at the same hotel.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The great white hunter manages to slay the beast, but with his transportation reduced to a smoking heap, the couple's forced to spend the night in the wild.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Jake Douglas: About half the people on the bus decided to move to a trailer nearby to spend the night.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2023
  • My parents couldn't believe my friends' parents let their kids spend the night.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • Towards the end of his mother’s life, Gittins would wheel her out of her nursing home and take her to spend the night in his flat.
    Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
  • Biden is set to spend the night before Election Day at a rally in deep-blue Maryland.
    Steve Peoples, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • From there, return to Bentonville via the paved Razorback Greenway (37 miles) or spend the night and ride back the next day.
    Cindy Hirschfeld, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • As what was thought to be just a short downpour of rain turned into a prolonged storm, Schultz and others were forced to spend the night on the bus.
    Liz Kreutz, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, Ewen is happy to spend the night celebrating with his peers.
    Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Our son was invited to spend the night and attend an amusement park the next day with this boy and his parents.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 July 2022

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