How to Use expendable in a Sentence

expendable

1 of 2 adjective

• Once again, a first-round draft pick helped make Rosen expendable.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
• Cause Ryan was kind of looked at as expendable piece within the game.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• But in the long term, such reshoring could make Taiwan more expendable.
  — Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
• That played a role in making Phillips expendable.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
• Civilians with expendable cash go out to dinner to break up the monotony of being alive.
  — Vulture, 26 Oct. 2023
• Just the feeling of one being expendable has always been a theme.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
• That would make Brissett expendable and the right fit for the Jets.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Rieder was also the first to sign and date her work—a move that transformed masks from expendable pieces to works of art.
  — Susan Portnoy, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• At first, the slogan was seen as a rallying cry for dorks with expendable income.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
• In pursuit of that dream, everything is viewed as expendable.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2024
• If this were a normal expendable launch, the rocket would have fallen into the ocean.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2023
• And built with an army of people the government views as fully expendable.
  — John Whitehead, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
• The will of the dudes in Instagram shorts with a few expendable dollars to put on a game will be served.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
• Older adults are not expendable, and like the rest of us, their souls are nourished through connection.
  — Paul Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• Thomas was starting to realize that, to his dad, many people were expendable.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• And of course, one of your party members may be working against you — after all, the crew may well be expendable.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2025
• The Mets could keep him around, but then Vientos becomes expendable.
  — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
• But by 2008, just four Olympics later, the sport was deemed expendable.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2021
• Meanwhile, Sheehan is an expendable piece for the Dodgers.
  — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
• For too long staff in Congress have been viewed as expendable and easily replaced.
  — Bradford Fitch, Star Tribune, 17 May 2021
• Lucas says that, after six seasons, he hasn’t been asked back for the next one and says everyone on that boat is expendable.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 May 2022
• The arms race in football and men’s basketball has made everything else seem expendable.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2021
• If the trio comes up big this season, Beckham and Landry could become expendable.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2021
• Play too fast, or too slow, and Ederson can go from essential to expendable.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• So many names in the backcourt make players such as Carsen Edwards expendable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• Most notably, the vehicle is fully expendable — one-time use.
  — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2026
• Others are riders who just have expendable income and do the sport as a hobby, akin to skiing or golfing.
  — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 7 May 2026
• Yet Covid-19 revealed that every worker is expendable, and line cooks ranked as the most at-risk job.
  — Alicia Kennedy, Bon Appétit, 1 July 2022
• As a result, Dalton was expendable.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
• The improved seeker can even be used as an expendable infrared-search-and-track system while still being rail-mounted.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2023

expendable

2 of 2 noun

• The flow doesn’t stop and that is key because there are so many expendables.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the novel, Mickey 7 is a space colonist known as an expendable.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• Such is the suffering of the lowly expendables, but spoils of war for the oligarchy of greed and power.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
• In the film, Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, a space colonist known as an expendable.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
• The Spurs have filled their roster with young talent, making Langford expendable.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• Back then, there were two key expendables and two gifts to offer up; now this system is practically a crafting and management sim all on its own.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
• The book, published earlier this year, centers on a man known as an expendable on a mission to colonize a distant planet.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2022
• Jones or Stidham could outplay Newton in training camp and make Newton expendable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
• Perry's ascension could make a forward like Lauren Cox expendable.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 13 May 2021
• By one calculation, each person would need 5 to 15 metric tons of expendables—mostly air, food, and water—per year.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019
• That makes Sexton expendable, because the Cavs will need to commit more than $100 million to re-sign the center.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 25 June 2021
• That made Trevino expendable and he was sent to New York, where he was expected to work primarily as a backup.
  — Dallas News, 30 June 2022
• The book, published in early 2022, centers on a man known as an expendable on a mission to colonize a distant planet.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
• The draft capital in that deal is undoubtedly what interested the Spurs the most, making Young expendable.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
• This isn’t the first time UAA administrators have deemed skiing expendable during a budget crisis.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2021
• However, Joshua Dobbs had an excellent training camp and preseason, making Rosen expendable.
  — Schuyler Dixon, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Even with rosters expanded from the usual 21 to 23 because of the pandemic, the Wings deemed Svechnikov expendable.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2021
• Dickerson's activation made guard/tackle Matt Pryor expendable.
  — Martin Frank, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
• The National School Lunch Act of 1946 made school cafeterias widespread, ostensibly rendering the homemade lunch expendable.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023