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Example sentences for "expended"

Lexicographically close words:
expelling; expels; expence; expences; expend; expending; expenditure; expenditures; expends; expense
  1. The revenues raised at Victoria were expended to some extent in the elder city, and the superintendent of Port Phillip had little influence and less power in the government.

  2. Many private persons expended large sums for these purposes.

  3. On their arrival, they expended their money, and sunk into misery.

  4. Money should be spent on clothing to secure health, but too often more than the right percentage of income is expended because of love of display.

  5. One column should show the income or amounts received with dates, and the second the total sum expended each day.

  6. When they have expended all their energies the revellers bring the festival to a close, and each village-company bears back its patron-goddess to her own little sanctuary.

  7. For many years he expended the chief force of his truly exquisite talent in investing vice with a charm which in real life it never possesses.

  8. He gave 3000 francs of it to a wretched manufacturer of bulletins; the remainder was expended on the police of his stable and his table.

  9. The fund of the museum available for explorations and the purchase of collections was judiciously expended year by year, and each annual report contained news of great interest to savants.

  10. The labor expended in digging them, and the peculiar character of their contents, render it not improbable that they were made in pursuance of some superstition or as part of a religious rite.

  11. The sea corresponds to the boiler; its cylinder surrounds the earth; it has for its fuel the axial energy of the earth; it has no condenser because it has no exhaust; the work it performs is all expended in producing the fuel.

  12. Assuming no influx of energy from without, the energy expended in the movement of the gaseous material must be obtained at the expense of the inherent heat and work energy of the gas, and these two functions will decrease simultaneously.

  13. The whole energy would not, of course, be expended in the expansive movement; only the outermost surface material of the planetary gaseous envelope attains to absolute zero of temperature.

  14. In the former case, the nature of the energy machine was such that the work energy communicated was expended in its entirety against gravitation.

  15. It may be expended against the elastic forces of a gas, or it may be worked down against chemical or electrical forces.

  16. The energy expended in raising the temperature of the working material returning to the surface of evaporation is obviously returned with that material.

  17. It is in virtue of these properties that energy may be applied to or expended on the material in this way.

  18. The whole of this residue, however, with the exception of a handsome gratuity to the nurse and a trifle spent on my clothes, I expended on the funeral, desiring that no stain should rest on my mother's birth or my affection.

  19. Every household had from two to six spinning-wheels for wool and flax, whereon the women of the family expended every leisure moment.

  20. Puerto Rico and other governmental and public purposes therein, as provided in the said act, and it is to be expended under the supervision and subject to the approval of the Government and administrative authorities of the Island.

  21. For this place he paid seven thousand dollars, and expended about three thousand more in furniture and decorations.

  22. Yet, while money is freely expended to train the intellect, it is only in rare instances that a child is put through a proper course of physical training.

  23. On a knowledge of the furniture procured and the sum expended for it a just estimate may be formed regarding the extent of the building of what will still be wanting to furnish the house.

  24. Yet all this show is expended merely for advertising purposes.

  25. The peculiarity of this last forest path was, that without a considerable amount of labour being expended upon it, it was impassable for horses, and not only difficult but dangerous for men.

  26. On the picture of the two sisters living so happily together, Miss Carey has expended some of her most careful and successful work.

  27. Among the signs of fatigue in children is the slight amount of force expended in movement, often with asymmetry of balance in the body.

  28. Three of his cartridges were expended on a deer before he brought it down and the rains came back, blinding and torrential.

  29. Before this would be expended he would have gained so complete an ascendancy over her that the control of her fortune would be in his hands.

  30. If the port side had rolled high as an impetuous sea struck, the latter expended its full force against the ship, communicating a jar from foretop to stokeholds as shivering as the shock of a collision with another vessel.

  31. Rayner felt that he greatly needed rest; but as he had expended part of his watch below, he could not have three hours' sleep.

  32. They were either struck by the hardihood of the boys, or had expended their ammunition; but the boat came on as rapidly as before, and was now not half a cable's length from them.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.