The word 'expends' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning to use up or consume resources, typically money, time, or energy. Example: The company expended a considerable amount of money on research and development for their new product.
Here, Kirkland combines this responsiveness with a subtle rubato (or "bending") of the score – watch the way, for example, she borrows a beat at 0 12 and expends it on that lovely airy balance at 0 13 – so that what emerges is a kind of conversation between her and the piano.
Indeed, the nutrition the algae provide may be the difference between life and death, for several studies suggest that even when lazily grazing the canopy, a three-toed sloth expends more energy than it takes in from the leaves it is consuming.The algae, for their part, rely on the sloth for shelter.
That a mouse expends more energy per gram than an elephant does is well known.
Because of this, the Internal Revenue Service has grown monstrously large as well: America, Mr Armey likes to say, expends five times as much effort harassing taxpayers as it does tracking down criminals.
The movement has little to say about today's pressing problems, such as global warming and the debacle in Iraq, and expends too much of its energy on xenophobia, homophobia and opposing stem-cell research.Conservative intellectuals are also engaged in their own version of what Julian Benda dubbed la trahison des clercs, the treason of the learned.
Instead, Japan expends its energies mainly attempting to convince shippers about the safely low levels of radiation in the country at large.
The United States expends its diplomatic energies in negotiations over the regime's tinpot nuclear and missile programme, with little to show for the effort.
No one expects more than a handful of small-scale isolated efforts to mark the occasion inside China; the only exception may be Hong Kong, where controls are much lighter.But the memories that remain are potent, as Ms Lim shows, which is why the party still expends so much effort in trying to suppress them.
At the best of times, his wages buy only slightly more calories than he expends to earn them.Mr Fraxon's ambition, he says, is to set up his own business buying and selling fish.
Similarly, Mr Kay expends too much energy knocking down another false target: the idea, attributed to free-marketeers, that people are utterly greedy in all parts of their lives.
Pump, a device that expends energy in order to raise, transport, or compress fluids.
