Suffering because they expend so much energy trying to control the uncontrollable.

What motive induced the people to expend so much labor on this mound?

One does not expend so much real knowledge with the purpose of inflaming his country.

Venport's profits must be immense if he continues to expend so much to maintain his operations there.

You have to expend so much of yourself in class, you're drained by the time you get home.

Your business is to earn money, and mine to expend so much of it as domestic comfort and well-being requires.

Others may wonder that I should expend so many words upon the two productions referred to, the Letter and the Lecture.

The Japs couldn't understand how the Americans could expend so much energy jumping for cigarettes, when they were supposedly very weak.

What young man will dare to choose a wife from among young ladies who expend so much money on their pocket-handkerchiefs?

I felt no inclination, however, for such a task, and, moreover, did not care to expend so much time as this process involved.

She had sometimes wondered how much more the Syndicate Worlds might have accomplished if its executives didn't expend so much effort working internal politics.

When you took a fancy to me, you said to yourself, 'I will expend so much on passion,' and you have kept your word.

They've got top nutritionist on their teams to make sure they put back every single calorie they expend so they can function at optimal capacity.

Then she would come back, seemingly relaxed having expended so much energy.

Expending so much time and energy on activism cost her commercially.

At which the other was vexed, after he had come so far and expended so much.