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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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
Currently the Mexican government expends significant resources to patrol its own southern border, not to mention dealing with the many potential migrants who gather in its northern cities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
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
Sometimes the subject expends much effort, but fails to direct the effort towards the execution of his purposes.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
