expend
verb (used with object)
to use up.
is expending
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present progressiveof expend (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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This boost to revenue and tourism, the government argues, justifies the resources it is expending.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
The goal isn’t merely replenishing what the U.S. is expending, but building more than enough to deter the next war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
“The State Bar is expending significant resources into its investigation” of Spolin, an agency prosecutor, Akili Nickson, wrote in an April 10 update to one lawyer shared with The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Battlefields around Vuhledar, southwest of Bakhmut and also in the Donetsk region, bear witness to the precious equipment and manpower that Russia is expending, with little territorial gain for now.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
The anxious jocularity of a man who is expending two thousand crowns sat on their host.
From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage
