Crossword-Solution: EXPENDING 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

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Expending p. pr. & vb. n. of Expend

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Current lover who seems suspiciously preoccupied? 1 answer
the act of spending money for goods or services 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXPENDING (5)

Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
What business had he to be married to the Princess!" To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
While America is printing tracts and bibles; sending missionaries abroad to convert the heathen; expending her money in various ways for the promotion of the gospel in foreign lands—the slave not only lies forgotten, uncared for, but is trampled under foot by the very churches of the land.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
The fellow ought to be hired to go express with the President's Message." The difficulty was solved by supposing that the narrator had made a mistake of one day in the date of the occurrence; so that our friend did not hesitate to introduce the story at every tavern and country store along the road, expending a whole bunch of Spanish wrappers among at least twenty horrified audiences.
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
This instrument constituted twenty-one noblemen and gentlemen a body corporate, by the name and style of “The Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America”, and in them was vested full authority for the collecting of subscriptions and the expending of moneys gathered, the selection of colonists, and the making and administering of laws in Georgia; but no member of the corporation was allowed to receive a salary, or any fees, or to hold land in the new province.
The Moravians in Georgia Adelaide L. Fries 1996

Quotes with EXPENDING (3)

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the troub…
Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every action is a losing, a letting go, a passing away from oneself of some bit of one’s own reality into the existence of others and of the world. In Jesus Christ, this character of action is not resisted, by trying to use our action to assert ourselves, extend ourselves, to impose our will and being upon situations. In Jesus Christ, this self-expending character of action is joyfully affirmed. I receive myself constantly from God’s Parenting love. But so far as some aspects…
Arthur C. McGill Dying Unto Life
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