Sentence examples for expend thousands from inspiring English sources
You could expend thousands of words charting how rock'n'roll – from its very name – has long been synonymous with sex and its close cousin, male lust.
When online recappers expend thousands of words debating the depiction of rape on "Game of Thrones," or when writers publish histories of sneakers or of the office cubicle, they show intense awareness of mass culture's ability to shape society.
But tax experts and the main accounting firms had stressed in consultations with the Treasury that it could expend thousands of hours and millions of pounds chasing wealthy tax dodgers and not achieve much extra revenue.
We TV critics expend thousands of hours and epic amounts of digital "ink" analyzing, scrutinizing, pondering episodes of TV.
Those who saw something of the blood expended through the 20th century to secure liberal societies must inevitably find democracy's diminished appeal puzzling.
Researchers have found that the steel plate-mail armor worn during the 15th century, which weighed 30 to 50 kilograms, required its wearers to expend more than twice the usual amount of energy when they walked or ran.
The failure of the 4th Canadian Division to capture the top of the ridge delayed further advances and forced the 3rd Canadian Division to expend resources establishing a defensive line to its north.
Why expend all the time and effort?
We expend sympathies to his family.
When Australian sport originated in the mid-19th century it was dominated by the wealthier classes who enjoyed what American economist and sociologist, Thorstein Veblen, termed in 1899 'conspicuous leisure' time – that is the capacity to expend time in pursuits with no material gain as a type of public display of their elevated social status.
