expends

present tense third-person singular of expend

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of expends Meteorologists said Erin would likely fluctuate in strength throughout the week as the storm draws strength from warm ocean waters, then expends energy through enormous wind and waves. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025 The first machine to solve the puzzle secures the next block of transactions and earns a Bitcoin reward, while every competing rig still expends the same electricity. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expends
Verb
  • Vaccarello, who was born and raised in Belgium to Sicilian parents, spends a month in Los Angeles twice each year, usually in March and November, a recuperation from the semiannual exertions of the women’s collection.
    Rob Haskell, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
  • According to the real-estate search engine StreetEasy, a property in Park Slope spends a median of seventy-eight days on the market.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Art that moves you, love that consumes you, moments that feel like magic.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Altman previously said the average ChatGPT query consumes as much energy as a lightbulb would in a couple of minutes.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The collection also pays tribute to the Belgian designer’s work for Y/Project, with various pieces in the collection—from boots through to prints—nodding to key archival designs.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The general fund also pays for parks, trash pickup, public works, code enforcement, and the county’s administrators and management staff, according to budget documents.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nothing, not even the slog of a miles long backcountry ski, exhausts me like chugging upward on two wheels.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of gradually boiling into insanity, the film hits fever pitch hallucinations right away and quickly exhausts itself attempting to keep pace.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Make sure to soak the plant thoroughly so the water drains from the bottom of the pot.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • What Hulu did years ago with its Castle Rock series, remixing different threads across King’s universe with a playful wink, Welcome to Derry approaches with a dutiful studiousness that drains it of fun.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The most common isotope, plutonium-239, is produced when the most common isotope of uranium, uranium-238, absorbs a neutron and then quickly decays to plutonium.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Key Takeaways Spinach is high in iron, but the body absorbs it less easily than iron from meat.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Expends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expends. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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