How to Use spent in a Sentence

spent

adjective

• By the summer of 2017, the Left Trolls were mostly a spent force.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2018
• The spent blooms of red clover have crumbled to powder.
  — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2021
• The prophets of doom are right; the auto show is fast becoming a spent force.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2019
• Just unscrew the bottom and dump out the spent coffee grounds.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• The spent water then returns to the surface pond, ready for the next cycle.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2024
• Turns out back in the day, pancakes were often just a way to use up old, spent bread starter.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2018
• The spent investor has no cash to invest in your business right now.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• It’s most likely a spent stage from the Chinese rocket Chang’e-5.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• The 25-year-old spent parts of three seasons with Edmonton.
  — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 1 July 2017
• UTC, which last put up a research building in 1986, is quick to point out that the state money is well spent.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 2 June 2017
• Those bromeliads with spent blooms from the old plants decline and should be left in the ground or discarded.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2020
• Choosing the wrong platform can be a big mistake in spent dollars and lost time.
  — Ketan Pandit, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• Once the weapon is fired, the belt moves through the machine gun, ejects the spent cartridge case, and a new cartridge is loaded into the weapon’s breech.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
• The victim was found face-down on the ground, with blood covering his face and three spent casings next to his body.
  — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2018
• The air smells burnt, heavy with the stench of gunpowder and the propellant of spent munitions.
  — Claire Harbage, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
• These also carried mail, packages, as well as the cinders and ash from spent coal.
  — Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• But the issue of debris has moved beyond spent rocket stages.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
• Water lingers in pools below sheer cliffs and in glassy rivulets flush with spent cottonwood leaves.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Candles placed in front of the sign were lit as police combed the street for spent shell casings and other evidence.
  — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• Spread seed from spent blooms on the garden bed for seed-eating birds and to germinate new zinnia plants.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020
• Not long ago, Merkel was considered a spent force, having announced that this would be her last term.
  — Katrin Bennhold, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2020
• It’s not unusual for spent surface-to-air missiles to wind up in gardens, fields or cities.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• On the day of the crash, Burley and six other team members first spent hours gathering evidence from the crash site.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• Many are located along the coast, where the material from the spent pyrotechnics gets blown ashore and moved around.
  — Gary Robbins, latimes.com, 4 July 2018
• Two deputies fired nine shots from Glock handguns and the third fired five rounds from an AR-15 rifle, according to Womble, based on spent shell casings.
  — Arkansas Online, 18 May 2021
• Don’t cut its woody branches; only trim the spent green stems, which will encourage more pretty blooms.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• Family and friends spent days trying to contact Eastman, to no avail.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2018
• There, police found blood and a spent bullet shell casing in White’s vehicle.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 17 July 2023
• In the close quarters of a duck blind, or on some clay target ranges, an autoloader or pump shooter on your left will be pelting you with spent shells.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
• There, police found Swanagan’s body lying face down between two houses and three spent casings in the area.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024