Sentence examples for had already expended from inspiring English sources
My reluctance to leave was likely rooted in the sunk cost fallacy -- in backtracking from the dead-end, I would be sacrificing the time that I had already expended.
And then came Saturday's national semifinal against the Wichita State Shockers, who played angry, played nasty, imposing their will on a team that had already expended a great deal of emotion and energy over the past week.
Judge Richard L. Buchter set bail at $500,000, pending the sentencing, but Dr. Scoon's lawyer, Michael G. Dowd, said the family had already expended its resources on the trial and was unable to make bail.
His team management raised a protest against the ruling of a technical fault and the judges ordered a relift – even if his chances of success were ruined by the energy he had already expended.
By this time, Richardson had already expended considerable effort on trying to get Asylum, Patrick McGrath's novel about events in a psychiatric hospital modelled on Broadmoor in the 1950s, translated to the cinema screen.
In walking out, taking guard and dealing with his first couple of deliveries, Owais Shah had already expended more nervous energy than, say, Inzamam-ul-Haq, might do over a century.
They are back home for Game 3 on Monday, but they have already expended their top two pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, and must face the Cardinals' ace, Adam Wainwright.
1934 Establishes an endowment fund for the Museum of Paleontology to "safeguard for the future the care of collections on which I have already expended many thousands of dollars". Continues to be active in her own fieldwork.
The diocese has already expended more than $37 million to settle cases involving priestly sexual abuse and has incurred untold legal expenses in its effort to deny the Catholic people full knowledge of this shameful chapter in diocesan history.
