Sentence examples for were expendable from inspiring English sources
adjective
Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
- Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
The workers themselves were expendable.
Our professional reputations were expendable.
"We were expendable to the Giuliani administration.
Men were expendable; women, because of their reproductive function, weren't.
Books and reading expand minds; only a fool would think that libraries were expendable".
Downsizing and re-engineering made it clear that employees were expendable commodities, not valued resources.
On both shows, he said, writers were expendable and the stars dominated the creative process.
"It sent a bad message to the rest of us, that we were expendable," he said.
John Wayne (left) and Robert Montgomery acting in the motion picture They Were Expendable (1945).
For the record, John Ford's They Were Expendable, one of the greatest pictures about men in battle, is indispensable.
