How to Use expire in a Sentence
expire
verb- She expired after a long illness.
- My driver's license has expired.
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But bills that aimed to do so expired at the end of the year.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2025
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The current deal expires at the end of the 2026 season.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
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The program, last extended in 2018, is due to expire at the end of the year.
—WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
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The most recent Farm Bill was passed in 2018 and expires this year.
—Thom Duffy, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
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After that expired, the Rangers signed him to a two-year deal.
—Sam Blum, The Athletic, 11 Dec. 2024
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His contract was due to expire at the end of the season.
—James Robson, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
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The county also had its own rules in place set to expire at the end of the month.
—Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
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Note that some of these deals may have expired or sold out.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
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But that fund expires at the end of the current fiscal year.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
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Moore missed a shot from the corner as the clock was expiring.
—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
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The warning is set to expire at 10 a.m. CST but could be dropped as soon as storms clear the area.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 25 Jan. 2023
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The most recent union contract expired at the end of June.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 30 July 2024
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And that will mean cuts of all sorts after the funding expires.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
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That authority is set to expire at the end of the year.
—WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
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In 2019, with that second contract set to expire, the city put out a call for new bids.
—Brittanie Shey, Chron, 12 Apr. 2023
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Keep in mind, though, that all the TCG deals are set to expire at the end of today, February 27th.
—Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 27 Feb. 2024
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With loan contracts expiring, some of the last black-and-white bears in the U.S. zoos are heading home.
—Jana Kasperkevic, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
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That news will come at the end of May (as options for those shows’ talent are set to expire).
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 May 2023
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The current three-year agreement is set to expire on May 1.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
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The names were all collected April 4-6. Platt’s contract was set to expire at the end of this year.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
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But 20 years after the first SawStop was sold, most of those patents have now expired.
—Chris Arnold, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
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Both Davies and Kimmich's deals expire on June 30 next year.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The contract for the cast members in question expired on June 16.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 9 July 2024
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The news comes as McCarthy’s contract with the Cowboys is due to expire next week.
—Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Both Ibaka and Hill are on contracts set to expire at the end of this season.
—Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2023
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The start of a new year is the perfect time to go through one's home in search of items that are no longer useful or are expired, broken, and the like.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
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The strike will move forward if a deal isn’t reached by Sept. 30, when the unions’ current contracts expire, the coalition said.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
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But both had their contracts expire and, frankly, the Bucs weren’t thrilled about finishing last in rushing offense two years in a row.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
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