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Meanings of spent force in English

We have no meanings for "spent force" in our records yet.
Usage of spent force in English
1
The witch-hunting mania in France was by then practically a spent force.
The Meaning of Witchcraft
2
Politically and scientifically the Liberal Democrats are, for now, a spent force.
The Guardian
3
I am a ruin, a spent force, a man without a future!
Three Men and a Maid
4
After the original, the character was already a spent force of evil.
News.com.au
5
Never mind all the talk of Romania being a spent force.
The Irish Times
6
Woods, a two-times winner there, now looks a spent force but will return.
The Guardian
7
Like Hurricane Sandy, his bluster, too, had become a spent force.
Raging Heat
8
By the home stretch, the leaders were a spent force.
The Guardian
9
Portugal looked a spent force for much of the game.
The Guardian
10
I thought before last summer's World Cup that he might be a spent force.
The Guardian
11
Godard is always being written off as a spent force.
The Guardian
12
He was in effect a spent force as a tournament player long before his time.
The Guardian
13
But most analysts consider the group a spent force.
Reuters
14
Even without the recession Starr was a spent force.
Heat Wave
15
He is a spent force, and an impediment between heads of state such as ourselves.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
16
I was almost certain he was a spent force and wouldn't recover between rounds fast enough.
The power of one
This collocation consists of:
Spent force through the time
Spent force across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Less common