expended; expending; expends
1
: to pay out : spend
the social services upon which public revenue is expended—
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expender
noun
Synonyms
Examples of expend in a Sentence
Are we willing to expend the time and resources required to solve the problem?
redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house
Recent Examples on the Web
The extreme effort his team expended to secure the Akasaka shoot was exemplary of the challenges of working in Japan — as was his dismay over the possibility of a rainout.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
The 7th Brigade got a hundred or so Storm Shadow and SCALP-EGs last year and soon expended most of them.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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
If everything has its own place, anyone can find anything and anyone can put anything away properly without expending much thought.
—Marni Jameson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
The energy the 6-foot-11 forward from Alexandria, Egypt, will expend on the court over 40 minutes cannot be replenished until much later in the day, after the sun mercifully drops over the horizon and darkness finally sets in.
—Dave Skretta, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
But instead of expending scarce engineering resources on matching buyers with sellers, AllDone relied on staff in the Philippines to manually construct every introduction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2024
Outside Julia’s apartment, the detritus of protests littered the street—tipped-over trash cans, twisted metal barricades, expended tear-gas canisters.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
Ukraine’s arms industry, for example, has helped offset Russia’s stockpile advantage by using handheld drones to precisely identify targets for artillery—curtailing the number of munitions Ukrainian soldiers have to expend.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
The 7th Brigade got a hundred or so Storm Shadow and SCALP-EGs last year and soon expended most of them.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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
If everything has its own place, anyone can find anything and anyone can put anything away properly without expending much thought.
—Marni Jameson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
The energy the 6-foot-11 forward from Alexandria, Egypt, will expend on the court over 40 minutes cannot be replenished until much later in the day, after the sun mercifully drops over the horizon and darkness finally sets in.
—Dave Skretta, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
But instead of expending scarce engineering resources on matching buyers with sellers, AllDone relied on staff in the Philippines to manually construct every introduction.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Mar. 2024
Outside Julia’s apartment, the detritus of protests littered the street—tipped-over trash cans, twisted metal barricades, expended tear-gas canisters.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
Ukraine’s arms industry, for example, has helped offset Russia’s stockpile advantage by using handheld drones to precisely identify targets for artillery—curtailing the number of munitions Ukrainian soldiers have to expend.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Expend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expend. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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