How to Use expend in a Sentence

expend

verb

• Are we willing to expend the time and resources required to solve the problem?
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Those substances require energy that plants can’t bear to expend during the heat of the day.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• The Ukrainians, in fact, were expending artillery shells at an unheard-of rate.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Washington said the money wouldn't be expended until the project got to that point.
  — Eplunus Colvin, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
• Not all of the money from the American Rescue Plan has been expended yet.
  — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• The measure would allow the board to expend staff resources to study the funding San Bernardino County receives from the state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• With the atmosphere expended in many spots, late-day focus has been west.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• And that's only one of several races where Democrats are expending a lot of funds on primaries for safe or safe-ish seats.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• The whole point of Instagram is to not expend any effort, other than moving your thumb.
  — John Brandon, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• But Stone shouldn’t expend resources upon veterans in a rush of the rebuild.
  — Rahat Huq, Chron, 10 Aug. 2021
• Even a slight disturbance can cause the birds to expend valuable energy when flushed.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2022
• Russia did expend plenty of air power in its assault on the airfield.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2022
• The number of dead and wounded reflects the amount of lethal munitions being expended by both sides.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Quite why there should be so much energy expended on what English soccer thinks of it all is not clear.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• No need to for either side to expend enormous energy wading through the what-if? free agent market.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• Not enough gets talked about how unselfish and how much Jasmine Thomas and Bri January expend at the defensive end.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• What better way to expend our leadership chops and precious life?
  — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Why expend substantial effort to determine whether 114 can be written as the sum of three cubes?
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2021
• Yeah, unlike Trump, Biden hasn't had to expend any serious money to fend off Phillips's challenge.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Like Ukraine’s army, Russian forces have expended enormous amounts of weaponry in the grinding war and need to be resupplied.
  — Siobhán O'Grady, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024