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Lessons Phrases spend (time) (doi...

spend (time) (doing something)

To "spend time ___ing" means to use your time to do it. You use the word "spend" with time because we think of time as being very valuable, just like money.

This phrase appears in these lessons:

  • “We spent the first month just debating what to call ourselves.”
  • “It's so much easier to order something than to spend all that time going to the grocery store, cooking, washing dishes... Not to mention I'm not that good of a cook to begin with.”
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