Sentence examples for didn't expend from inspiring English sources

She didn't expend much effort in washing it.

But the vieja didn't expend more than a watt of herself.

Aside from a thorough cleaning and rearranging some furniture, they didn't expend much energy getting the apartment ready for sale.

"It's a way of being able to say that gee, you didn't expend the dollars yourself," he said.

The party's central committee didn't act very centralized, and even though Mr. Madigan endorsed Mr. Cohen's opponent, State Representative Arthur Turner, he didn't expend much effort in helping him gain votes.

But they bristled at his suggestion that they did not expend satisfactory effort.

Both Mr. Silver and Mr. Bruno also said the governor did not expend much energy negotiating in good faith to reach an agreement before May.

"You did not expend your energy in preening and seeking acclaim," eulogized one of Mr. Moakley's dearest friends, William Bulger, who served with him years in the State Senate and who is now president of the University of Massachusetts.

Exhibit B: Showing he did not expend all of his energy with his 270-foot first-inning romp, Galarraga comes to bat in the third inning after a pair of two-out singles by the Jones gang (Andruw and Chipper) against Reed and swats Reed's first pitch to him over the right-center-field fence.

The attack lasted 30 minutes and though they carried enough bombs to level the palace, the pilots did not expend all their munitions.

In fact, northeastern lodepoles' lack the terpenoid defense mechanism to fight the beetles, because they did not expend energy resources to a build such a defense system against a non-existent (at the time) beetle predator.