Verb (used with object) : She expended energy, time, and care on her work.    From Dictionary.com. 

Note that labor-power expended is how we get labor.    From Wordnik.com.  [skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 4] Reference

A subset of this rhetorical description of time expended is an account of the origins of the interest leading to the invention or discovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

To the two previous commenters: Go travel one day, and you’ll find out why (and where) quality of life/cost expended is notably higher in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » US vs. Europe: Standard of Living] Reference

Time expended is worth it.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - What you haven't been reading about] Reference

These women expended no more neural effort than the average-SAT women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Matters] Reference

When the tenant has expended several months 'rent in repairs on the house?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Little or no effort was expended to nudge Musharraf away from military rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan’s Double-Cross] Reference

Have already expended nearly one hundred dollars, yet, I trust there will be no lack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference

The money and worry time expended on Y2K will pick up rapidly over the next 16 months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bugged By Y2k?] Reference

In the case of the Air Car, electricity from the grid is expended in compressing the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fill 'Er Up, But Not With Gas] Reference

Pundits have expended a lot of energy on this puzzle, but there's actually no puzzle at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow to Spend] Reference

The money was not paid to them directly, but was expended judiciously and for their benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

The result of such a course will he, that all the time and labor which we have expended will be lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference

Los Angeles has become the largest City in America to conduct an audit of how ARRA funds have been expended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wendy Greuel: Audit of Federal Stimulus Funds in Los Angeles Shows $111 Million in ARRA Grants Has Only Created 55 Jobs] Reference

The fact that their vital energies are all expended upon labor relieves them from the motives of temptation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Sara, who had expended a solid hour over that very occupation, was perfectly conscious of the reproach implied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

And the reason why I say that is we've expended well over a year of the country's energy to get to where we are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Summer 2010] Reference

We're going to continue to audit how these funds are spent, to ensure that they are expended quickly and correctly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wendy Greuel: Audit of Federal Stimulus Funds in Los Angeles Shows $111 Million in ARRA Grants Has Only Created 55 Jobs] Reference

There's so much waste when energy is expended turning nothing into nothing and all those extra zeroes are still ... nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Il Farniente When Times Get Tough] Reference

He knew that one man's wages were expended for his family, to pay the baker and the druggist, or for his children's schooling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A lot of broadcast time and column inches have been expended on probing exactly when and how Romney established his pro-life bona fides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reassessing Sexual Politics] Reference

When the film finally shows clips from actual Chaplin movies, you wonder why all this effort wasn't expended on an in-depth documentary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not A Season To Be Jolly] Reference

Even when a country successfully defends against such a challenge, significant amounts of taxpayer funds must be expended in legal defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lori Wallach: CAFTA Attack on Green Policy: Did Obama Need More Reasons to Renegotiate Bush's NAFTA-Style Trade Deals?] Reference

The array seemed bewildering, from pedometers that only counted steps to ones that recorded the time, calories expended and a few other things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Steps to Better Health] Reference

This was one of the great secrets of the Cold War, the sheer amount of dollars and energy expended on spying by the Soviets and the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Google We Trust] Reference

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley expended their chemistry in the first, and best, “Pirates”; by now their love story is running on dead batteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Overboard!] Reference

Does any fan need a reminder of how many of last year's more notable free agent signings were disasters or at least major disappointments for the money expended?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Benching of Barry Bonds] Reference

Sellers have always expended a great deal of time and energy trying to figure out what potential buyers really think (as opposed to what they say when you ask them).    From Wordnik.com.  [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference

But anyone who felt that way would never have expended the meticulous care with which Hitchcock crafted the scene when Marion eats supper in Norman Bates's study in the motel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother of All Horror Films] Reference