How to Use expenditure in a Sentence

expenditure

noun

• The project will require an expenditure of effort on everyone's part.
• The energy expenditure was significant.
• Wind turbines typically recoup this energy expenditure in less than a year.
  — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
• So, nothing to do with Meta’s eye-watering capital expenditure in the AI race, then.
  — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
• For example, right around the holiday season is when many companies have to spend the remainder of their capital expenditure budgets for the year.
  — Brian Cristiano, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Even the 49ers, who previously made lavish independent expenditures on his behalf, have jumped ship.
  — Mercury News Editorial, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• Where was Bittker coming from, in his opposition to tax expenditure analysis?
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• At least 30% of below-the-line expenditure is spent in Hong Kong.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• And it's been the lowest capital expenditure in the last two years, so that didn't drive it.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2022
• Players can aim for a level of expenditure that keeps it fun and low-risk.
  — Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
• That’s just over a third of the prison’s total expenditures and the most money the department spent on anything.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Qatar’s project to build a team for this World Cup has paled in comparison and in cost to the rest of the country’s expenditure on the tournament.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• The largest expenditure was the child tax credit, which came as direct payments to parents, up to $3,600 per child.
  — Claire Cain Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• My office used to keep about $1 billion in our checking account to meet the expenditures.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
• Officials said the total amount of awards should be 35% or less of the projects’ capital expenditures.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Board of Trustees is the governing body for the library and establishes policies and approves the expenditure of funds.
  — cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
• The meal at the bottom must be scrumptious, Royer notes, or else the energy expenditure involved wouldn’t be worth it.
  — Bykate Hull, science.org, 11 May 2023
• Commuting to and from work is a huge expenditure of time and energy.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Labor unions said the cost was closer to $300 million, if the state required hospitals to cover much of the expenditure.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• But according to the authors of this latest paper, the 2020 study didn't measure the caloric expenditure of those silly gaits.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2022
• That means less income for the Russian state going forward, even as its expenditure surges due to the invasion of Ukraine.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
• This was a $74 million expenditure for the Osage Nation, but its value to us is priceless.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• The intervening year was one of brutal 12-hour days, seven days a week, and the expenditure of tens of thousands of dollars (and the loss of much more in subscriber payments while the site was down).
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• The national debt topped $33 trillion this year, and fiscal watchdogs warn that within the next three decades, the cost of interest on the debt will be the nation’s largest expenditure.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• When campaigns do report on payments, they are required to disclose the name and address of the recipient, as well as the date, purpose and amount of the expenditure.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• Less than 20 percent of Medicare expenditures are on drugs.
  — Brian Blase, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.8% from a year ago in March.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 1 May 2024
• Then, most of the money in the race had gone to independent expenditure groups, which this year have played second fiddle to the candidates’ direct spending.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Nov. 2022
• On the travel costs, McNulty says the district's expenditure was closer to half a million dollars than to the millions cited by Potter.
  — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 4 Dec. 2023
• Those legal fees caused the group to burn through money, accounting for two-thirds of the group’s expenditures from January through June, with payments doled out to over 40 different law firms.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024