How to Use spend the night in a Sentence

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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
  • People in the programs get to spend the night on the island.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Kernodle was dating Chapin, who had come to spend the night.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 1 July 2025
  • Even so, Teixeira was forced to spend the night away from his hotel.
    — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Palmer insisted that Pavlovich spend the night in her guest room.
    — Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Amy and Pati are flown over the trail to where the group eventually spend the night in bivy sleeping sacks.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Miles had been in a fight that night with him and had left her motel room to spend the night with Reynolds in his motel room.
    — Christopher A. Combs, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • As a certified Dark Sky Park, this is an excellent place to spend the night to stargaze.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Snow was forecast, so Dick invited them to spend the night.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Flight delays forced Choco and his travel partner to spend the night in Chicago — a layover neither of them had planned.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • The rationale is that such kits could be needed in case a student has to spend the night at school, especially in the event of an earthquake.
    — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
  • The hiker had no backup equipment and was unprepared to spend the night.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025

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