The word would not have been exchanged, but that the housebreaker was unable to open the door: on which he was expending fruitless oaths and violence, when the Jew came panting up.
While Mr. Middleton was thus expending his fury, Fanny was alone in her room, struggling hard to subdue the bitter feelings which were rising in her heart.
She, however, often wished that Mr. Wilmot could be constantly with her sister, for his presence in the house did not prevent her from expending her wrath upon both Fanny and the blacks.
So far as the improvement association is concerned, it can find many ways for expending the difference of cost between ashes and concrete, which will accomplish a much more telling result.
Two companies with large capital, after expending all their resources, have been obliged to abandon their attempts to build up a profitable business.
We see all this very plainly in respect to the action of the limbs and organs of the body; for it is palpably evident to our senses, and we feel the necessity of providing safe and proper modes of expending these energies.
The resident engineer departed to other climes, and was soon expending his energy in building the great harbour at La Guayra.
The Barristers of England, how listlessly they sit, Expending on each other a small amount of wit; Without the opportunity of doing something worse, By talking nonsense at the cost of some poor client's purse.
In one case to prevent the too great increase of sensibility by shortening the time of sleep; and in the other by increasing the irritative motions, and expending by that means a part of the sensorial power.
To be certain of striking these valuable targets would be worth expending a number of torpedoes in salvo fire.
Her owners, however, prefer running the risk of losing her to expending a thousand dollars!
The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
No man can do his best when he is hurried and fearful, when he is expending energy in a manner as useless as a tug blowing off steam.
It is on the same principles, and in the same belief, that I would advise you, when you deal with a covetous man, to propose your business to him immediately after he has been receiving, rather than expending money.
The way in which she can most efficiently assist, is by taking care of his property; by expending his money to the greatest advantage; by wasting nothing, but by making the table sufficiently abundant with the least expense.
Here it must be fatal, and especially among that description of persons whose wives have, in many cases, the receiving as well as the expending of money.
The old carpenter raised his gun very slowly, and aimed with immense deliberation, the muzzle of his gun cautiously tracing the flight of the bird, thus expending cartridge after cartridge.
I purchased the stores for the gunroom mess, expending £67, accounting for every penny, with the most sedulous precision.
He had his gun over his shoulder, and his double shot belt as full as it could be of shot, although there was not a chance of his expending a grain during the day.
The chief physical function of living matter seems to consist in absorbing energy, storing it in a higher potential state, and afterwards partially expending it in the kinetic or active form.
As to work or activity: We should select and proportion our food according to the work we do, because eating is a process of making energy, while work is a process of expending energy, and we should make these two accounts balance.
One cannot raise a finger without expending brain and nervous force, the muscles being implements by way of which the brain transforms purpose into action--being brain-implements therefore.
You can save it without expending a single claco; only by giving a grace.
The two men, lying on the ground side by side, slept or smoked with that apathy and careless indolence peculiar to men who despise talking for the sake of talking, and thus expending energy which they may require at any moment.
Content yourself with vigorously repulsing attacks, sparing the blood of your soldiers, and not expending your ammunition needlessly.
A popular method of expending money, both by countries and by individuals, is in sending expeditions to observe solar eclipses.
An astronomer who would aid them in this work, by properly expending a grant, would confer rather than receive a favor.
Down came the mountain of water, but instead of carrying the seaman with it, it passed harmlessly by, expending its energy in a blow that raised a column of spray forty feet in the air.
When you have finished your work, I will talk with you about expending your money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
