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

A Cobra rolled in expending on the area and seemed to indicate a pick up point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepard, Vernon C.] Reference

I also know wealthy families who have no interest in expending the extra time or money to educate their children outside of public schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: "Educators seek way to close achievement gap"] Reference

The Board of Education secures the money that is necessary to operate the schools for the year and there is no wastage in expending these funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Makes a Good School?] Reference

Isolationists likewise bristle at the idea of expending blood or treasure in an open-ended commitment to spread our values.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on spreading democracy as a foreign policy] Reference

A would-be artist in youth, the notion of expending countless hours to produce something of beauty and value came naturally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Henry Adams: Some Great New Books!] Reference

One person, after having laboured in vain for three years, and expending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

We are expending in this country many millions of dollars each year to increase farm production.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

So too our expending these passions entirely on our enemies will give less trouble to our friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

You can, of course, get up and close the window, but it becomes a matter of expending too much energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference

These things, therefore, I object to you, a learned audience, for whose sake I was expending this labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clouds] Reference

However he searched for the dress and, at last, after expending a great sum of money, he procured such a gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore] Reference

Of the moderate means placed at his disposal he was always properly careful, expending very little upon himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian A Memoir] Reference

And I remember the sheer joy of expending energy, when energy built up like water behind a dam in the springtime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Koloman, Running] Reference

Johnnie was expending his energies in hard digging, and dropped for the while his usual character of 'merry-andrew.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Tales] Reference

For over seven hours the main battery fired on the enemy at ranges from 1,200 to 600 yards, expending over 2,400 rounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference

From Beirut and Bosnia to Iraq and Somalia, the troops served and sacrificed while expending huge sums of taxpayer money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Op-Ed: Think Of War On Memorial Day, Not Beach] Reference

But it ignored its Kaiser hospital campaign, where SEIU is expending more resources than in all other struggles combined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randy Shaw: SEIU Uses Fear, Lies, and Million$ to Sway Kaiser Workers] Reference

"We were expending an enormous amount of manpower there trying to provide ... some sense of security," recalls Police Maj.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawing Up Safer Cities] Reference

As he has saved a few dollars in letter paper, he feels justified in expending ten times that amount for some extravagance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

The Richmond African Baptist Missionary Society and Lott Cary, however, were expending their funds liberally on the schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

He went on tying his rose-trees, his ardor expending itself in choice snippings of the stray stalks and rebellious tendrils.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference

We then paid each other visits of ceremony, expending much labour, even if no cost, on the feasts we prepared for our company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

Could I take the place of prime minister to my lady, and content myself with carrying out her orders, and expending her money?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference

Any bill for tax reduction should be written by those who are responsible for raising, managing, and expending the finances of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

A just economy, expending where the public service requires and withholding where it does not, is among the indispensable duties of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

His heart pounded as he ran, not because of the physical effort he was expending, but because again from the camp had come that blood-freezing howl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

If only Marc Zuckerberg would devote the same energy to protecting the rights of his 500 million users that he is expending to protect his own privacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Evans: If Only Irony Had a Privacy Setting] Reference

This Manual is not intended to provide a short and easy way of teaching literature nor to save the teacher from expending thought and labour on his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference

The teacher should be guided in the selection by the interests of the pupils, first finding out from them the things upon which they are expending their wonder and inquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

And if the revenue drops, "it's just simply not realistic to believe that shareholders would continue to support expending resources in Illinois with no prospect of a return.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arlington Park's Future Uncertain: Financial Woes Plague Race Track] Reference

The vessel in question originally cost twelve thousand dollars, and I proposed to cover this value by expending an equal sum on her outfit, in order to constitute me half owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference