Example Sentences

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They have learned — in a bold, new, public way — how much energy they had been expending and exhausting and wasting in the tortured art of hiding.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2018

So Mr. Colbert focused on the comedy and his performance, and Mr. Licht dealt with management issues that the host had been expending energy on: staffing, budgets, sales meetings, the works.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2017

Mayor Walker meantime, had been expending his energies upon "drafting" a new police commissioner.

From Time Magazine Archive

But her father had no such theory; he had been expending unavailingly, so far, every effort to ascertain Eaton's connections.

From The Blind Man's Eyes by Balmer, Edwin

All my life I had been expending energy at top pressure and building it up again as fast as I could instead of sometimes letting it lie fallow for a bit.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise