Sentence examples for So expended from inspiring English sources

Reusing the substantial intellectual effort so expended for programming a second system has proved much more challenging.

"I have never seen so much expended on so little," he snapped.

Besides, fighting aging isn't exactly a war I can win, so why expend so much energy to combat the laws of nature?

Football is a game of emotions, not only emotions confined to the field but also a universe of emotions that maintain a team's equilibrium, especially for a team like the Jets, who began the season so poorly and expended so much energy catching up.

He wanted to be "normal" so he expended a lot of energy trying to pretend he was OK when he wasn't.

What propelled them to the streets was the long, slow burn of accumulated grievance, and there is little reason to believe that their fury has so swiftly expended itself.

Pérez said he did not throw as hard as usual because he did not want to tire too easily in the hot and humid weather, so he expended that energy on spotting his pitches where he wanted.

It's likely that the total sum so far expended – the cost of making the film, and marketing it in the UK – have already been exceeded by the distributor's profit from the box office.

Understanding how fish manage to swim so quickly but expend so little energy could also lead to new propulsion systems for ships and submarines.

"Perhaps no man in the history of exploration has expended so much money and so many lives in pursuit of so desperately pointless a dream," Fleming writes.

Rarely in a new work at the Royal Opera House can so much have been expended to so little effect.