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Example sentences for "expenditure"

Lexicographically close words:
expence; expences; expend; expended; expending; expenditures; expends; expense; expenses; expensis
  1. The rapidly increasing expenditure needed every day increased taxation, and a caricature published in 1732 marks the public feeling.

  2. In the ten years' reign, the official expenditure for George IV.

  3. The average annual national expenditure under the rule of George I.

  4. Secretary of War admire the quiet style of its furniture and the rare old family silver on its table.

  5. The troops, he says, were simply “chuckling with delight” on receiving an order to turn the enemy out of a position which could only be carried by great expenditure of life.

  6. The rapid increase of our country in extent and population renders a corresponding increase of expenditure to some extent unavoidable.

  7. The receipts of the Post-Office Department can be made to approach or to equal its expenditure only by means of the legislation of Congress.

  8. The objects of expenditure should be limited in number, as far as this may be practicable, and the appropriations necessary to carry them into effect ought to be disbursed under the strictest accountability.

  9. Comparisons between the annual expenditure at the present time and what it was ten or twenty years ago are altogether fallacious.

  10. This is constantly creating new objects of expenditure and augmenting the amount required for the old.

  11. The cost of their construction will not be great and they will require but a comparatively small expenditure to keep them in commission.

  12. This policy was pursued with eminent success, and the only cause for regret is the heavy expenditure required to march a large detachment of the Army to that remote region and to furnish it subsistence.

  13. We have yet scarcely recovered from the habits of extravagant expenditure produced by our overflowing Treasury during several years prior to the commencement of my Administration.

  14. There could not but be a considerable expenditure for such a purpose.

  15. A neglect to secure the best tool needed might be classed as an extravagance, a waste, if the tool in question could have added to the quality and quantity of the output, without the expenditure of more labor.

  16. From no equal expenditure of money do the people get so much good.

  17. I say this, partly because to be consistently well-dressed means much daily expenditure of time, and partly because really good clothes have a distinctly curative effect on the patient who wears them.

  18. I am also to state that no account of expenditure will be required.

  19. The vast apartment was packed with people living at just that rate of expenditure and seeming to think naught of it.

  20. If I asked for five hundred pounds to add to the farmhouse, I would get it at once, for I am a good tenant; but my landlord demurred at such an expenditure for cot-houses.

  21. But it's very small reason for such an expenditure when you come to look plainly at it.

  22. All effects are attained with the minimum expenditure of strength and material.

  23. A] These sums are independent of what is raised by state and auxiliary societies, for expenditure within their own particular bounds, and for their own particular exigencies.

  24. In all we may compute the first year's expenditure at £460 sterling.

  25. It is said, here is an enormous expenditure of the public money proposed.

  26. As some of the returns are imperfect, the average which I have given of expenditure may be rather high, and therefore I have not counted the mileage, which is also universally allowed.

  27. You remember, in this country especially, the denunciations of the profligate expenditure of the Conservative government, and you have since had an opportunity of comparing it with the gentler burden of Liberal estimates.

  28. The estimates of Government expenditure in the year 1694 were enormous,' says Macaulay, in his fourth volume.

  29. The contracts of the Government involve the expenditure of larger sums than were ever paid before in the same space of time by this or any other Government.

  30. That portion of the expenditure not met by revenue or loans has been met by the issue of these notes.

  31. This consideration puts into proper perspective the things which matter, and warns us to cease vain expenditure on unscientific philanthropy.

  32. This is an increase over the expenditure of last year.

  33. The increase in expenditure has been entirely in the work done upon the field; the cost of agencies and administration being less this year than last.

  34. The fact that a book involving so much technical knowledge and the expenditure of so much time and money was deemed justifiable is an evidence of the great need for some definite nomenclature.

  35. There should be no unlearning in the course of an education nor any expenditure of time on that which has no permanent value.

  36. Dhritarashtra said, 'Tell me truly how a foe can be destroyed by the arts of conciliation or the expenditure of money, or by producing disunion or by the employment of force.

  37. By the arts of conciliation or the expenditure of money should the foe be slain.

  38. At the end of the war Great Britain will probably find herself with a national debt so great that she will be committed to the payment of an annual interest greater in figures than the entire national expenditure before the war.

  39. The ratio of public expenditure upon secondary and higher education in Germany as compared with the expenditure upon elementary education is out of all proportion to the British ratio.

  40. Money wisely employed in promoting these objects, it is believed, would add more to the power and prosperity of the country than its expenditure on any general system of fortification at the present prices of labor and materials.

  41. La Paz is not difficult to defend against a naval attack, and the proposed fortifications may be constructed in a short time and without a very large expenditure of money.

  42. There was no regular direct taxation, nor was there any direct regular expenditure on the part of the state.

  43. But, in fact, it has not been so; so that the 60 francs of supplementary expenditure are paid without any compensation.

  44. Such implication would, however, be even more fallacious than an assumption that every expenditure made by an individual distributes itself in such a way that it becomes equally an expenditure by every other individual.

  45. Sometimes it took the form of a blotting-book, the cover worked or painted by herself, or a photograph frame, or perhaps a sketch of her own, something costing little excepting the expenditure of time and patience.

  46. Though offensive to a sense of beauty, the Kachel-Ofen may generally be trusted to keep the temperature warm at a minimum of expenditure in fuel.

  47. The expenditure of the Government, or Home Department, was .

  48. The principal expenditure is in the maintenance of a large militia force, in which every person capable of bearing arms is enrolled and called upon to do duty in turn.

  49. Members of the College may order dishes to be sent to their own rooms, in reason; though any very extra expenditure in this respect would need to be authorised by your Tutor.

  50. He can carry on no extensive business without the expenditure of considerable capital.

  51. Why should not the towns, by the expenditure of a little money, restock flats such as these for the benefit of their inhabitants?

  52. As two or more men frequently go in one boat, even this expenditure may be reduced.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expenditure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablation; absorption; amount; assimilation; attrition; charge; consumption; cost; damage; debit; decrease; decrement; depletion; depreciation; digestion; dissipation; drain; erosion; evaporation; exhaustion; expend; expenditure; expense; figure; finishing; ingestion; leakage; outlay; payment; price; rate; score; shrinkage; upkeep; waste