expend
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The end goal: Expend the smallest amount of carbon.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2019
Play: Expend all that coffee-bean induced energy at Jefferson Park.
From Seattle Times • May 12, 2018
Expend, eks-pend′, v.t. to lay out: to employ or consume in any way: to spend.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain.
From A Boy's Will by Frost, Robert
Expend Eternity upon its shows, Flung thee as freely as one rose Out of a summer's opulence,402 Over the Eden-barrier whence Thou art excluded.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
Vocabulary lists containing expend
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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