In a sentence
Six example sentences with expendable, each labelled with its topic.
Managers labeled the branch printers expendable and let them run until failure instead of paying for service contracts.
Business
In the strategy game your scouts are expendable, so send them into fog rather than risking a costly siege engine.
Gaming
Pack one expendable pair of sandals you can leave behind rather than carry home caked in river mud.
Travel
The fund treats a small cash buffer as expendable, spending it on fees rather than selling shares at a bad moment.
Finance
Early rockets used expendable boosters that fell into the sea, so each launch paid for a whole new vehicle.
Science
The screenwriter treated the sidekick as expendable, cutting him from the third act when the runtime needed trimming.
Movies
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