Sentence examples for that expends from inspiring English sources

"For one day, two days — sure, you may find something that expends more energy.

Pump, a device that expends energy in order to raise, transport, or compress fluids.

If you can see past the dismal sexual politics of "Bad Teacher," which I couldn't, you might applaud the gall of a film that expends so little effort in forcing us to like its central character.

But for a certain few, it is a year-round project, or obsession, that expends more energy on internal quarrels than on selecting the next grand marshal -- which is, come to think of it, a source of bickering in itself.

It is a screed that expends as much energy denouncing the State Department, Europe, the C.I.A., the F.B.I., Democrats, the foreign-policy establishment and even former President George H. W. Bush (the authors accuse him of trying "to prevent the Soviet Union from disintegrating"), as it does on denouncing terrorists and terror-minded states.

It is like something out of Laurence Sterne, and Mandanipour, who dedicates his book to the postmodern novelist Robert Coover (among others), is playfully alive to the elasticated comedy of a digressive story that expends all its energy on failing to start.

Each run burns up about 20 gallons of kerosene, with about half that expended in fireballs "to give a thrill to folks in the stands," he said.

Several studies have shown that expending effort on a task seems to commit us to it.

These royalty trusts are not like oil exploration companies that expend monies searching for new oil reserves.

When researchers measured the metabolic rates of this intricately patterned insect, they found that butterflies that expended the most energy during flight also lived the longest, whether they were lab-bound or released to island meadows in Finland.

Art is useless, and practically minded people claim that expending great resources and effort in the service of something useless is stupidity.