Sentence examples for expend so much time from inspiring English sources

Why did earthlings expend so much time and passion on this apparently pointless exercise?

Not only is it slightly obscene to expend so much time and effort and money on your own hypothetical survival plan in a world where people are currently, actually struggling to live – but also, this kind of preparedness doesn't happen in a vacuum, but as an expression of an ideology; it's a gross caricature of American individualism.

Expending so much time and energy on activism cost her commercially.

Maybe she's expended so much time and energy building up her outer shells that they've begun to reinforce her inner self too.

For reasons I've never completely understood, the Democrats made little effort before the mid-terms of November 2010 to explain or to defend the law on which they had expended so much time, energy and political capital.

And there is a risk, too, that Blair will have expended so much time, energy and credit on this enterprise that any prospect of reform at home, or progress in Europe, will be severely compromised.

The Bundesliga has lost another big ish) name but sympathy for their plight will be in short supply: club president Martin Kind has expended so much time fighting skirmishes with the supporters and pushing for a relaxation of ownership rules that he neglected the simple things: hiring a decent sporting director and manager, for example.

"The public security organs can be very powerful," Mr. Hu said, "and to their way of thinking, once they've expended so much time and energy on a case, if a verdict of innocence comes in, they find this very hard to accept".

We spend so much time with it.

Don't spend so much time celebrating.

You expend so much energy trying to come back in the game, it wears you down.