Expended

Examples

• All that he has of certainty will be expended when he is fully equipped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In this case, chemical action is expended in heat rather than in the production of electricity and the liquid becomes hot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The money was not paid to them directly, but was expended judiciously and for their benefit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He started a lawsuit at once to recover the sums he had expended, and judgment was given against Gutenberg, commanding that he should pay what he had borrowed, together with interest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This of itself was a subject of much importance and a vast amount of research and labor was expended upon it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Are you certain that you can afford to part with so much money, and that it is right that it should be so expended? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The original estimate for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was ￡300,000, but the amount expended on the works at the time of opening was nearly ￡800,000. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• During this long journey, considerable force is expended against friction, and hence the flow at a distance from the reservoir falls to but a fraction of its original strength. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Fourdrinier having expended ￡60,000 in perfecting the machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Fourdrinier, a wealthy stationery firm, purchased the patents, expended ￡60,000 for improvements on the machine, and first gave to the world its practical benefits. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The building-rent is the interest or profit of the capital expended in building the house. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He's good for a hundred a-year, but of course that must be expended on himself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Cannon and musket balls filled the air: but the damage done was in small proportion to the ammunition expended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then there is pictured Tycho's chemical laboratory, on which he has expended much money. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mr. Knight, whose services in the cause of educational literature entitle him to the highest praise, expended ￡5,000 a year in woodcuts for this work. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Mr. Cort expended a fortune in developing the iron trade, and was one of the greatest pioneers in this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• 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. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He had brought no money with him, the whole he could muster having been expended in paying his passage. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In fine wires the resistance to the current is large and the energy of the battery is expended in heat rather than in current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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