expend
verb (used with object)
to use up.
have been expending
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present perfect progressiveof expend.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Both Russia and Ukraine have been expending munitions at a furious rate.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
Ever since, we have been expending enormous resources and impinging on the rights of law-abiding citizens to prevent any such attacks in the future.
From Salon ● May 11, 2013
At the rate at which they have been expending ammunition up to now, Amin's remaining loyalists will run out of it very soon.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have been expending two days in a letter to the Friend on "Distillation," which I ardently hope to get inserted. 11th Mo. 3d.
From A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England by Eliza Southall
