expend
verb (used with object)
to use up.
expends
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present tense formof expend (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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This spiritual sequel to “Frankenstein” is a romantic tale of obsession, possession and fantasy — adjectives that also apply to its filmmaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who expends massive quantities of energy jolting it to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
A worm expends a vast amount of energy to jump and faces risks of predation or drying out while suspended in the air.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
Attacking Rook’s Rest, he expends lives in a wager that one of Rhaenyra’s dragons will show up, knowing Aemond is hiding with Vhaegar in a nearby forest.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2024
These refer to one-sided relationships where one party expends an overt amount of time, emotional energy and money on another whom they are fascinated with, but who may not know they exist.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
The stiff, upright, careful old man cannot understand the jocund pliability of the boy, who, nevertheless, simply expends the superfluity of his natural vigor, and relieves his excess of nervous excitability.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
