expending

How To Use expending In A Sentence

• The US media is expending a lot of ink and air time evaluating the potential economic effects of George Bush's new tax-cut proposal.
• On the lower tier to the left of the tach is a needle that swings up and down between blue at the top and green at the bottom to let the driver know when the battery is expending power or getting a regenerative charge. Mississauga News
• Once the water reaches fifty degrees and above, and the sun starts to stay out longer and longer, these large females will begin roaming the shallows and looking for food that will build weight and is easy to catch without expending a lot of energy. Is This The New World-Record Largemouth?
• Hong Kong's regulators are expending ever greater efforts to crack down on ever paltrier financial crimes such as insider trading and market manipulation. Hong Kong's Regulatory Misdirection
• The forest had already been defoliated and the oaks and aspens were expending precious energy sending out a second flush of leaves.
• He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy he had trying to breathe.
• At the time when Cornelius van Baerle began to devote himself to tulip-growing, expending on this hobby his yearly revenue and the guilders of his father, there was at Dort, living next door to him, a citizen of the name of Isaac Boxtel who from the age when he was able to think for himself had indulged the same fancy, and who was in ecstasies at the mere mention of the word "tulban," which (as we are assured by the "Floriste Francaise," the most highly considered authority in matters relating to this flower) is the first word in the Cingalese tongue which was ever used to designate that masterpiece of floriculture which is now called the tulip. The Black Tulip
• Its good, its proactive and there's no time to sink into the mire of self doubt and hopelessness if you are expending energy (preferably on inanimate objects).
• The State in all European countries, and in England first of all, as I hope, will discover that its functions are now, and have long been, very wide of what the State in old pedant Downing Streets has aimed at; that the State is, for the present, not a reality but in great part a dramatic speciosity, expending its strength in practices and objects fallen many of them quite obsolete; that it must come a little nearer the true aim again, or it cannot continue in this world. Latter-Day Pamphlets
• He didn't want to narrow the expending from the beginning.