Sentence examples for could have expended from inspiring English sources

For a curmudgeon like me, it's tempting to assume that no other age but our own could have expended so many column inches on a triviality of grooming.

America could have used in other ways the energy that both groups have expended in this conflict.

If I had all that energy back — all the hours and neurochemicals and facial musculature I have expended in my wanton pursuit of likedness — I could propel myself to Mars and back.

I have expended 80 hours of labor and $2,000 in parts working on it.

He looks as if he would have expended more energy sipping a cup of tea.

"You have expended less energy and less money casting a wider net," he said.

Researchers have expended considerable effort in minimizing glycerol formation.

In addition, we have expended to include a discussion of genetic variation in dormancy depth.

Tomato breeders have expended considerable efforts trying to develop cultivars with improved fruit taste.

His team had expended so much first-half energy that once they went behind there was little they could do to regain a foothold in the game.

Since many of my email correspondents had expended much effort over the past two years persuading Michael Gove that the ICT curriculum in schools needed a radical overhaul, I could see why they were annoyed.