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How to use the word expend in a Sentence?

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The president is going to expend substantial resources to win the midterms, he cares deeply about the party winning.

James Blair

Found on ABC News
20 days ago

Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

J. P. Morgan

added by Normando
2 years ago

We decline to expend additional judicial resources and further subject the victims in this case to additional trauma where the questions at hand present nothing more than an academic exercise.

Supreme Court

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It will require effort... if you want to forge relationships when you are new, they won't come to you, you have to go to them, which means you have to expend extra effort in whatever feels most natural to you.

Tessa White

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.

Sir Denison Miller

added by Normando
4 years ago

Simone Biles is continuing a journey for women gymnasts that really started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they started to do more tumbling to accompany their dancing, and that tumbling was rivaling the men's in terms of its difficulty, simone Biles goes further than that... and Simone Biles's doing it while also having to expend Simone Biles energy on dancing and leaping and turning and smiling throughout Simone Biles routine.

Georgia Cervin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Just needed to get through to the next round and that's exactly what I did. Didn't want to expend any more energy than you have to, i knew having Sarah next to me, if she was pushing me then I'd get through to the semi-finals no worries. She's a good pacing buddy.

Cate Campbell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The United States is very concerned about the conflict's toll on innocent civilians and is working to bring the conflict in Yemen to an end. But we can not end The United States through ill-conceived and time-consuming resolutions that fail to address The United States root causes, rather than expend time and resources on such resolutions, I encourage the Congress to direct its efforts toward supporting our work to achieve peace through a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Yemen.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In a country where music is outlawed and there is no outlet for young people to expend their energy, you have to have a replacement that is more official and without problems, the maddah are copying from rap, rock and dance music.

Mohammad Javad Akbarein

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.

Azhar Sabri

added by azhar-sabri
10 years ago

I just think he is not willing to expend political capital to do it, it's not nearly as important to him as the Iran deal.

Joseph Margulies

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

My singular focus until the clock strikes midnight in 2017 is going to be how we build the economy that works for everyone, i've never been a fan of those who have the privilege of doing these jobs expend any iota of time thinking about what they want to do next.

Tom Perez

Found on CNN
11 years ago

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

Albert Camus

added by anonymous
16 years ago

They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

added by anonymous
16 years ago

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