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Example sentences for "public expense"

  • Some weeks before the measure is to be decided at the polls this pamphlet is sent at public expense to every registered voter in the state.

  • Moreover, municipal ownership might increase enormously the indebtedness of the municipality, since either private plants would have to be purchased, or new plants erected at public expense.

  • The political "boss" has consistently used his power to manipulate the caucus or the primary so as to advance his own interests at public expense.

  • And when not claimed by friends and relatives, to bury the body decently, and when the property of deceased is not sufficient to defray expenses, this may be done at public expense.

  • Shall bury the body when necessary at public expense (Md.

  • Opportunity must be provided, at public expense, for youths who wish to be fitted for the university.

  • Indeed, so parsimonious is the Department becoming of late, that it will not even allow him a deputy or clerk at public expense, although there has been one there for years.

  • He arrived at Victoria in time to perform signal service to his fellow-citizens; that is to say, he found many of them in a state of starvation, and sent them back to California at public expense.

  • Complying with these petitions boards of education provided for colored schools which were to be partly or wholly supported at public expense.

  • Travelers in Canada found the colored mission schools with a larger attendance and doing better work than those maintained at public expense.

  • It was erected and is maintained by the national government at public expense.

  • The following are the requirements of the system: Ballots must be provided by public expense, and none but these ballots may be used.

  • Just how many warehouses were built at public expense is difficult to determine, probably only a few, if any, were built in this manner.

  • If the land owner refused to build, then the court could order the warehouse built at public expense.

  • If the owner of the site refused to build, the county could, after a fair appraisal, buy the land and build a warehouse at public expense.

  • No one then dreamed of transporting the children at public expense.

  • In those States where mixed schools alone were provided, white children did not attend and were thus cut off from educational opportunities at public expense.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public expense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little parsley; nine tenths; other references; public auction; public confidence; public control; public entry; public functionaries; public institutions; public land; public letter; public measures; public money; public place; public revenue; public schools; public sector; public spirit; public square; public utilities; public view; public virtue; publick affairs; publicly perform; taking his; this description