How to Use expense in a Sentence

expense

1 of 2 noun

• I don't think a first-class ticket is worth the added expense.
• A new car is a major expense.
• The annual fee is simply an expense of doing business.
• Lisa still lives in the home with the children without a single expense.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• Travel expenses add up quickly, and flights often are the brunt of the cost.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
• A lot of the songs, Lizzo’s in particular, make so much more sense in the film than on their own, almost at the songs’ expense.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• But for now, at least, Democrats are celebrating, in part at LaRose's expense.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• A couple of changes to your household expenses will make your life less stressful.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Members work Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and are paid $25 a day, plus mileage expenses.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Imagine the expense and mayhem caused by the need to repave thousands of miles of New York streets after a single weeklong heat wave.
  — Curbed, 28 July 2023
• Go about your business, work alone and avoid anything that requires you to share expenses.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• And this line of thinking shows how you and the second owner might get reimbursed for your expenses over time.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some have delayed retirement or gone back to work to stay afloat; others have tried to cut back on their expenses.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• And Gilead has long covered up to $7,200 in annual out-of-pocket expenses for PrEP.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The digital frontier is stacked with risks, with hackers eyeing a big score at your expense.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The first of two GoFundMe pages had been created in September to help him with health care expenses.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2023
• Suddenly, the idea of charging people for a checkmark to cover the site’s expenses might not seem so brilliant.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• Travel insurance can compensate you for some of these expenses and, at the very least, provide you with peace of mind.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
• Employees who might otherwise want to retire could feel the need to work full-time for longer in order to cover their expenses.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
• From there, get a clear, comprehensive grasp on your expenses.
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 20 Jan. 2024
• Restaurants, too, have become more of an expense for Americans.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• Levy has not asked, so no party in the case has commented on the fees and expenses requested in connection with the LAN settlement.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
• The judge just recently awarded Workman and her law partners more than $6 million in attorneys fees and legal expenses, on top of the award to their client.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• His firm, with $3.8 million in expenses for the recent period, was the top-spending lobbying firm.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• The money also is expected to speed up the creation of an electric bus fleet, which could recoup some of the expense in operating savings over time.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• The union insists that labor expenses are only 4% to 5% of the cost of a vehicle, and that the companies are making billions in profits and can afford big raises.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• While this is important, and can even be a protective factor toward our mental health, these values may come at the expense of our own well-being.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• There is no cost to students, parents and members of VOY for travel expenses, according to Accius.
  — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
• His take is that people can focus on saving and building wealth by cutting out the expenses that don’t spawn joy while learning how to spend on those that do, thus creating a rich life.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 June 2023
• On the expense front, total expenses as a % of revenues decreased in the quarter, leading to an operating margin of 27%.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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expense

2 of 2 verb

• The following month, Schroder expensed a $218 meal at the same restaurant.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• This new change allows for business owners to be able to expense business items all in one year that were incurred after the year 2017.
  — Karlton Dennis, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The right’s expensing, taxing equally in the U.S., and no longer taxing around the world, all incredibly pro-growth, big changes.
  — WSJ, 12 Feb. 2017
• Because of the near victory before extra innings, the Dodgers had expensed their best arms.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• Companies can make a lot of money at that price range and also keep their income up and expenses down.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• If auto allowances are stopped, employees could instead expense mileage at the IRS standard of $.575 per mile, Lin wrote.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• Marquis has increased the Cliburn’s expenses for school performances, which are free for local schools.
  — Andrea Ahles, star-telegram.com, 3 June 2017
• Those who live within two hours of the Boston headquarters can now fully expense the cost of traveling into the office once a month.
  — Sarah Shemkus, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Noem made a similar announcement on Monday in Sioux Falls, which will be able to expense up to $41.5 million to federal funds the state has received.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2021
• Team staffers also receive per diem, although some opt to decline the benefit in order to expense lavish meals.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• To narrow the growing gap between revenue and expenses the largest Catholic university in the U.S. is starting to cut its budget.
  — Nic Querolo, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Palantir fired two employees who expensed lingerie and suits, people familiar with the episode say.
  — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
• When Leroy left the U.S. armed forces, expenses the military had helped pay for — housing, utilities, clothing, food — began to rack up.
  — Staff Writer, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• The House Minority Leader is not the only one to expense unusual travel costs.
  — cleveland, 6 Feb. 2020
• The sports-marketing staff were among the employees who sometimes attended strip clubs with athletes and expensed the visits to the company, the people said.
  — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• Companies have long been able to expense their R&D costs upfront, even if the product of that research ends up being a product or patent that could generate revenue for years.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2019
• Visa’s spending on personnel rose 8% in the quarter because the company continued to expense hiring from late last year.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2020
• This move violates rules that state the prime minister’s residence cannot expense catered meals while also employing a chef.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 21 June 2018
• Some companies expense the credits at the time of purchase, while others capitalize and write them off later.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• The business expenses Along with paying and training workers, coffee shop owners must keep the lights on — literally.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Now renovations are in the same category as home remodelings and must be expensed over 39 years.
  — Mark Escamilla, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• One of the biggest differences between book and tax income is how companies expense their investments.
  — Rob Portman, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• The company said in its annual report its capitalization of those costs is limited, and so some of them are expensed as they are incurred.
  — Michael Rapoport, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Federal travel rules allow first- and business-class flights to be expensed to the EPA on long, international trips only.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• On an annualized basis, expenses during the fourth quarter were 30% lower than the same period a year before, Brown said.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
• That number assumes that most of the personal income-tax reductions expire in eight years, and a break for expensing capital equipment starts phasing out in 2023.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018
• The company he co-founded, Salesforce.com Inc., helped boost sales by encouraging employees to buy and expense the book published last October.
  — Nico Grant, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• Honda decided against designing a plug-in because of the additional weight and expense the driveline brings.
  — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• The lawsuit cites many of the allegations that have emerged in other legal cases in recent months, including that LaPierre expensed hundreds of thousands of dollars in wardrobe purchases at a high-end clothier.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• Regulations stipulating more clearly what could and could not be expensed by a surrogate had become law just weeks before this email exchange.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023

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