How to Use expend in a Sentence

expend

verb

• Are we willing to expend the time and resources required to solve the problem?
• Deputies located at least one expended bullet casing at the scene of the shooting.
  — Mark Gomez, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
• Getting in and out of a table requires more concentration than a rum fancier might wish to expend.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• Warsaw, aware of this, is now expending significant resources to upgrade its army and air force.
  — Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
• That prevents hackers and malicious insiders alike from being able to use the data without first having to expend large amounts of resources.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
• Single Geminis shouldn't expend too much of their energy or fret over their encounters with love interests.
  — Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 9 June 2019
• The energy expended in these skirmishes and alliances drives celebrity culture.
  — Sharon Marcus, Time, 25 June 2019
• On occasion, the system reaches the ultimate point of absurdity when gigantic sums are expended with no discernible results.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Officers responded to multiple reports of shots fired and found more than 30 expended casings in various calibers strewn about the scene, police said.
  — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 5 June 2019
• Missett was early to appreciate the attractiveness of the proposition to women who expended so much energy on others to focus, for an hour, on themselves.
  — Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The Atlantic, 16 June 2019
• When the punch line comes, the energy being expended to suppress inappropriate emotions, such as desire or hostility, is no longer needed and is released as laughter.
  — Giovanni Sabato, Scientific American, 26 June 2019
• The grapes gain depth in proportion to the amount of work the vine must expend to survive.
  — Alex Halberstadt, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• This can expend a lot of energy to keep the plane cool.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• Lawyers for Hochul and Adams have sparred in court over how best to house and expend resources to care for the migrants.
  — Anthony Izaguirre, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• Those steps around the house weren’t going to expend Allen’s battery, though.
  — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2020
• And any effort expended to make one’s way through life with a smile.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2023
• This is not where Biden had hoped to expend his time and energy.
  — Aamer Madhani and Ellen Knickmeyer, Star Tribune, 20 May 2021
• The union might expend endless energy to find that needle in the haystack.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• And yet, quite a lot of city money was now being expended.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2023
• Work-life balance has shifted to allow more room to expend time doing things that are not part of the job.
  — Chandra Gundlapalli, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• To lose weight, the body must expend more energy than the calories consumed.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
• Your sign ruler Venus craves healing, but doesn’t want to try anything new or expend any effort to achieve it.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 15 July 2024
• Most would rather have a rock in their Nikes or eat a tainted pregame crème brulee than expend energy in a game that does not count.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2021
• And now, in less than a week, all that was achieved, and sacrificed, all the lives and treasure expended, has come undone.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 14 Oct. 2019
• Those substances require energy that plants can’t bear to expend during the heat of the day.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• Cruise lines expend a lot of energy going the extra mile for guests.
  — Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
• The Ukrainians, in fact, were expending artillery shells at an unheard-of rate.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Funds shall be expended during the year they were approved.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
• Families have to expend resources to help buy school supplies and now those funds would be there.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Washington said the money wouldn't be expended until the project got to that point.
  — Eplunus Colvin, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024