Example sentences for: expend

How can you use “expend” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).

  • EPA also estimates that 49 public utilities owned by 41 municipalities will be affected by the rule, and of that total, the 18 small governmental entities (populations under 50,000) affected will expend less than 1 percent of their annual revenues for compliance.

  • California officials have been especially aggressive, muscling reluctant FEMA officials to expend billions on "code upgrades" requiring massive or even total reconstruction of buildings suffering relatively minor damage.

  • They don't drool or wear their shirts backward, but they do expend insane amounts of energy on ridiculous "politics," dissipating most of it through meaningless infighting and petty posturing.

  • A perfectly efficient government would find its platforms instantly implemented; a completely inefficient one would expend all its resources without accomplishing any of its goals.


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