Sentence examples for expend several hours from inspiring English sources

Often, the water destitute expend several hours each day simply fetching the family's water, which is very heavy to carry at 8 1/3 pounds per gallon, from the nearest potable source -- a burden that regularly falls on women and children, who sacrifice productive work and education to the process.

PLANS NEW STOCK ISSUE; To Expend Several Millions on Added Facilities During the Current Year.

A 1953 study found that the average thunderstorm over several hours expends enough energy to equal 50 A-bombs of the type that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War Two.

Chill for several hours.

For several hours.

Maybe several hours.

We talked for several hours.

Several hours passed without incident.

So we talked several hours.

She overshot by several hours.

For several hours, nothing happened.