EXPENDABLE in a Sentence

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1. I expended energy,time,and care on my work.
2. They expended their lungs with prodigal wills.
3. You expend so much effort for so little return.
4. Don't expend all your time on such a useless job.
5. Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPENDABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expendable
 a.  not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal; not reusable; Suitable to be expended
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  He was yet speaking, when a crashing sound was heard, and a cannon-ball entered the thicket, striking the body of a sapling, and rebounding to the earth, its force being much expended by previous resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
2  Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
3  They expended their lungs with prodigal wills.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  Eventually, his courage expended itself upon these objections.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had presently expended their forces.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  You have expended a great deal on my education, and have always been as liberal to me in all things as it was possible to be.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
8  He's good for a hundred a-year, but of course that must be expended on himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
9  Worst of all, the energy expended on this work was not simply wasted.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
10  Fisk, Atlanta, Howard, and Hampton were founded in these days, and six million dollars were expended for educational work, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of which the freedmen themselves gave of their poverty.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
11  Considerable sums of money are collected and expended here, employment is found for the idle, strangers are introduced, news is disseminated and charity distributed.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
12  There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian.
13  But Napoleon with his long experience of war well knew the meaning of a battle not gained by the attacking side in eight hours, after all efforts had been expended.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Gavroche balanced on his heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
15  I've expended a lot of effort on it, but so far with no result.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
Example Sentence:
1  So far, sites have focused their attention on a younger demographic, which is finite, fickle and limited in expendable income.
2  In the Great War soldiers were considered expendable.
3  I expended energy,time,and care on my work.
4  Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.
5  People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.
6  You expend so much effort for so little return.
7  They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
8  Don't expend all your time on such a useless job.
9  The soldiers expend all their ammunition in that fight.