Sentence examples for expend ourselves from inspiring English sources
Sacrifice, offered in full rejoicing at the opportunity to expend ourselves totally for our neighbor's well-being.
"We really expended ourselves to get back in the game to the point where we could take the lead after being down 20".
In order to address these appropriately and to help ourselves and others expend effort where it is necessary or desired, we need to appropriately identify the type of laziness at hand.
And why have we ourselves expended so much imagination and energy in trying to join them?
We, as women, expend a great deal of energy second guessing ourselves.
"We got ourselves almost hooked on a defensive strategy that we would not expend significant resources without new or additional evidence".
"We got ourselves almost hooked on a defensive strategy that we would not expend significant resources without new or additional evidence". Lord Justice Leveson put it to Stephenson that "the very defensive mindset" the former commissioner described "might be a very, very good example of the relationship and culture between the press and the police".
Sentences expend their syntactic energy quickly and are left to wind down like music boxes: "In the hard flat light beyond strip malls, / we sealed ourselves in your apartment, / intact as a memory of singing past bedtime, / our voices sweet as the guitar you strummed, / fading out, as if you read my mind, / to go it alone".
All of us expend huge amounts of (mostly unconscious) energy avoiding even thinking about pain or death, particularly our own, but pictures are just removed enough and the people in them unknown and unknowable enough to make looking at them seem temporarily safer than dwelling on ourselves.
Why expend all the time and effort?
