How to Use expenditure in a Sentence

expenditure

noun

• The project will require an expenditure of effort on everyone's part.
• The energy expenditure was significant.
• At least 30% of below-the-line expenditure is spent in Hong Kong.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• That’s just over a third of the prison’s total expenditures and the most money the department spent on anything.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Officials said the total amount of awards should be 35% or less of the projects’ capital expenditures.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The meal at the bottom must be scrumptious, Royer notes, or else the energy expenditure involved wouldn’t be worth it.
  — Bykate Hull, science.org, 11 May 2023
• This was a $74 million expenditure for the Osage Nation, but its value to us is priceless.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• The national debt topped $33 trillion this year, and fiscal watchdogs warn that within the next three decades, the cost of interest on the debt will be the nation’s largest expenditure.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Less than 20 percent of Medicare expenditures are on drugs.
  — Brian Blase, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• On the travel costs, McNulty says the district's expenditure was closer to half a million dollars than to the millions cited by Potter.
  — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 4 Dec. 2023
• Those legal fees caused the group to burn through money, accounting for two-thirds of the group’s expenditures from January through June, with payments doled out to over 40 different law firms.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Under the restructuring, films and high-end TV projects will get a 34 percent expenditure credit.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• Yes, low-carb diets can indeed increase energy expenditure, but by so little that the signal wouldn’t rise above the noise until at least 3 months.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• The personal-consumption expenditures price index, which is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation, rose 0.2% in July from the prior month, the same pace as June.
  — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
• The report details the latest expenditures of Smith and other special counsels.
  — Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
• Once the watch is moved again, the motion detector at 4:30 causes the watch to leap back to the accurate time, moving the shortest distance—clockwise or counter—to minimize battery expenditure.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
• These sorts of expenditures have continued to creep into ETF budgets every year.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Apr. 2023
• And that’s just one example of public infrastructure put at risk; throw in the harm to public health and food production, and the flooding and droughts, and so on, and the expenditures rise exponentially in each state.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
• But cutting tax expenditures in a thoughtful and systematic way could both clean up the revenue code and help reduce federal deficits.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• For their part, studios and streaming companies may be cutting back on expenditures.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
• In the following three years, public health expenditure totaled $11.6 billion, largely because of costs of treating and containing the virus.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• Her biggest health expenditures are a $27-a-month gym membership and an $79-a-month supplement subscription.
  — Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 4 Nov. 2023
• As colder days become more frequent, snakes will start eating less and will slow their metabolism and heart rate to save up on energy expenditure.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• While the indictment doesn’t specify which laws, the most likely candidate is Trump’s failure to report the payments as a campaign expenditure.
  — David Orentlicher, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• The largest increases in consumer expenditures during March were for housing expenses and health care, according to the report.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• The category accounts for more than half of core consumer expenditures, Powell said.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
• Consumers still consider current prices — and expenditures — very high, Hsu said.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• But the widow had fallen into financial trouble, depleting her savings and needing a way to meet day-to-day expenditures.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Jones-Sawyer sits on the reparations committee and is one of two lawmakers tasked with convincing Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state's other lawmakers to adopt the jaw-dropping expenditure.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production.
  — Teresa Mettela, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024