expend in English

verb
1
spend or use up (a resource such as money, time, or energy).
we do not need to expend energy working on our marriage

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "expend" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "expend", or refer to the context using the word "expend" in the English Dictionary.

1. Governments expend a lot of resources on war.

2. People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.

3. You expend so much effort for so little return.

4. To give or expend with reluctance: Begrudged every penny spent

5. Now, I expend considerable time and thought on recruiting and interviewing.

6. As regions specialize and expend production, they can lower their average costs.

7. 4 People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.

8. Most animals expend a lot of energy searching for food.

9. Don't expend all your time on such a useless job.

10. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly.

11. You know the kind of energy you have to expend to be that?

12. It can't afford to expend too much energy on a prey it's not certain of catching.

13. The capture of Bougainville successfully isolated Rabaul and caused the Japanese to expend more of …

14. We expend a lot of effort every day upon quite pointless activities.

15. After the inspection was concluded, it was determined to expend Baden as a gunnery target.

16. 24 As regions specialize and expend production, they can lower their average costs.

17. However, there is no source of extra oxygen to expend as rocket propellant.

18. Starting at 14th level, when you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration

19. The husband can feel abandoned, and expend more of his time and energy in his work.

20. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus 

21. Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity.

22. All those matter expend the great mass of the subsidiary company's gross profit analysis . "

23. If we consume more energy than we expend, the surplus is stored as fat.

24. However, any observer will note that the energy people are prepared to expend in pursuing organizational goals varies greatly.

25. You know the kind of energy you have to expend to be that? It's impossible to me.

26. Avoid letting such things as comfort, leisure, and entertainment dampen your desire to expend yourself in God’s service.

27. Sadly, many parents today seem unwilling to expend the kind of effort that is needed.

28. Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended.

29. And because dense bones tend to sink, black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat.

30. Pictures of dead children mean little to governments like Russia who expend their own resources to prop up Assad.

31. (Proverbs 23:24) By all means, then, prepare those precious “arrows,” protect them, and expend yourself in directing them.

32. I think it is safe to say that very few students expend the effort to do quality work in school.

33. 14 Ageing warmheartedness and kind-hearted natural . has ready in the interest of the peace undertaking to expend self capability.

34. I received tempting offers for advancement and began to expend my energy on climbing the corporate ladder.

35. 14 Export credit insurance guarantee for its liabilities , the more flexible of transaction to expend its market.

36. Although exercise becomes more difficult as weight is gained, you expend more energy simply staying alive the heavier you are.

37. To cast one of your Artificer spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher

38. But Cheapskates would sooner expend energy than spend money—and some repairs don’t cost a whole lot, anyway

39. Deciding - consciously or not - to expend energy involves a choice and an assessment of the total energy available.

40. The households expend their resources on goods and the firms provide the households with income as they pay for productive resources.

41. To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that Consumed most of my time and energy

42. ‘The analysis tells us whether a material should Crystallise, and therefore when to expend effort trying to obtain a crystalline sample,’ explains Cooper

43. “The rage we expend on others seems to lash back and strike us in the heart muscle,” said a recent issue of American Health.

44. If you give up exercise, your muscles shrink and fat increases. By the same token, if you expend more energy you will lose fat.

45. By integrating Countervail into the racquet you will expend less energy on powerful strokes, experience reduced muscle fatigue, and have a shortened recovery time.

46. This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. Elbert Hubbard 

47. I hereby authorize the following named committee, which is NOT my principal campaign committee, to receive and expend funds on behalf of my Candidacy.

48. Binding beyond their respective at*Borities or to require any of the parties to or expend finds in exces of available appropriations

49. “When we were under stress in caveman days—say, from running away from an animal predator— we’d expend a lot of energy,” says Glassman

50. These passages emphasize the importance of being actively concerned about the spiritual and physical welfare of others, being willing to expend time, energies and assets in their behalf.