1.   Although he might well spend his days in one place, obsessively devoted to music-making, he would always be morally underemployed.

2.   Angel and Tess Decided to spend a day together shopping on Christmas Eve.

3.   As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle.

4.   Beat the summer doldrums by spending a day at the zoo.

5.   But because of the blizzard nearly all federal workers here were forced to spend another day away from the office.

6.   Crash investigators spent several days examining the scene.

7.   Eve had spent the day wandering around Dublin with a heavy heart.

8.   Federal employees we know describe colleagues who spend their days reading magazines, planning sailing trips, or buying and selling stocks.

9.   For all my love of landscape, nothing could persuade me to spend another day in the Highlands.