How to Use expenditure in a Sentence

expenditure

noun

• The project will require an expenditure of effort on everyone's part.
• The energy expenditure was significant.
• At least 30% of below-the-line expenditure is spent in Hong Kong.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
• Not to mention the city budget, worth more than the budgets of many states, so paint shouldn’t be an over-the-top expenditure.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
• And it's been the lowest capital expenditure in the last two years, so that didn't drive it.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2022
• Players can aim for a level of expenditure that keeps it fun and low-risk.
  — Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
• If ever there were a reason where for an expenditure of this amount, this is it.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• That’s just over a third of the prison’s total expenditures and the most money the department spent on anything.
  — Amy Yurkanin | [e-mail], al, 6 June 2023
• Qatar’s project to build a team for this World Cup has paled in comparison and in cost to the rest of the country’s expenditure on the tournament.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• The largest expenditure was the child tax credit, which came as direct payments to parents, up to $3,600 per child.
  — Claire Cain Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• In this case, the sum of $900 million of the construction costs was a federal grant, and some would say that this should not count as an expenditure.
  — Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
• Behind the scenes there is a fight brewing over the wording of a law for a 100-billion euro expenditure.
  — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The largest single expenditure of the Covid wealth is going to one place – punishment.
  — David Sher, al, 23 Jan. 2022
• Similar to the above, a lot of this comes down to calorie intake vs. expenditure.
  — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 18 Jan. 2022
• Large jets are also expected to account for about two-thirds of all expenditures of new business jets in the next five years.
  — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2024
• My office used to keep about $1 billion in our checking account to meet the expenditures.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
• Officials said the total amount of awards should be 35% or less of the projects’ capital expenditures.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• The Board of Trustees is the governing body for the library and establishes policies and approves the expenditure of funds.
  — cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
• The meal at the bottom must be scrumptious, Royer notes, or else the energy expenditure involved wouldn’t be worth it.
  — Bykate Hull, science.org, 11 May 2023
• Commuting to and from work is a huge expenditure of time and energy.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The expenditure can be added to future budgets as part of the annual meeting cost.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2022
• Labor unions said the cost was closer to $300 million, if the state required hospitals to cover much of the expenditure.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• But according to the authors of this latest paper, the 2020 study didn't measure the caloric expenditure of those silly gaits.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2022
• That means less income for the Russian state going forward, even as its expenditure surges due to the invasion of Ukraine.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
• This was a $74 million expenditure for the Osage Nation, but its value to us is priceless.
  — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
• The intervening year was one of brutal 12-hour days, seven days a week, and the expenditure of tens of thousands of dollars (and the loss of much more in subscriber payments while the site was down).
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• The national debt topped $33 trillion this year, and fiscal watchdogs warn that within the next three decades, the cost of interest on the debt will be the nation’s largest expenditure.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• When campaigns do report on payments, they are required to disclose the name and address of the recipient, as well as the date, purpose and amount of the expenditure.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• Lil Wayne and his publicists didn't respond to the publication's questions about the expenditures.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
• Its preferred inflation gauge, known as the personal consumption expenditures price index, is coming in lower — and closer to the Fed’s target — than the higher-profile consumer price index.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025