expend

How To Use expend In A Sentence

• Balzac expended a great deal of pains, and one of whom he seems to have "caressed," as the French say, with a curious admixture of dislike and admiration. The Thirteen
• Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss. The First Man in Rome
• Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• These are based on the observation that expenditure is typically necessary to partake in such recreational activities.
• Definition: Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period.
• The 62 million consideration will bolster the strength of the balance sheet and free capital for expenditure on the branded goods. Times, Sunday Times
• Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.
• Yet according to a recent survey 7 per cent of health care expenditure is on alternative medicine. Alternative Health Care for Women
• A cup of coffee in the morning can increase performance, but too much coffee expends energy and can create long-term exhaustion.
• Table 10.1 illustrates this with reference to revenue expenditure on basic services by the ten district councils in the Greater Manchester area in 1987/8.