How to Use expire in a Sentence

expire

verb
Definition of expirenext
Synonyms for expirenext
  • She expired after a long illness.
  • My driver's license has expired.
  • The program, last extended in 2018, is due to expire at the end of the year.
    — WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The most recent Farm Bill was passed in 2018 and expires this year.
    — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Note that some of these deals may have expired or sold out.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • And that will mean cuts of all sorts after the funding expires.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • Keep in mind, though, that all the TCG deals are set to expire at the end of today, February 27th.
    — Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 27 Feb. 2024
  • With loan contracts expiring, some of the last black-and-white bears in the U.S. zoos are heading home.
    — Jana Kasperkevic, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But 20 years after the first SawStop was sold, most of those patents have now expired.
    — Chris Arnold, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The strike will move forward if a deal isn’t reached by Sept. 30, when the unions’ current contracts expire, the coalition said.
    — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The law, set to expire after Thanksgiving, has cleared the way for more than 2,500 lawsuits.
    — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The deadline to come to an agreement will expire Wednesday at midnight PT.
    — David Zimmermann, Washington Examiner, 12 July 2023
  • Once the plan is approved by the court, the terms of the current board of directors will expire and a new board of directors will be assigned.
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And once these offers expire at midnight PT on October 11, the prices will go back.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Eviction protections in Texas began to expire in May 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 19 July 2023
  • The Westin Bonaventure is the only hotel so far to have reached a deal, averting a strike just as contracts were set to expire June 30.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The current three-year contract was not scheduled to expire until Aug. 31.
    — Steph MacHado, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • Chen has been under pressure to wrap up the review of the business before his contract expires next month.
    — Stephanie Hughes, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But many of those who were able to qualify saw their aid end after those policies expired.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That tax is set to end in the fall of 2031, several months after the teams’ current leases expire at the Truman Sports Complex.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The committee signed off on contract changes to eliminate K5 at Next Door, and the full contract will expire next June.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2023
  • Yearly passes purchased to enter state parks and trails will last for a full 12 months from the time they're purchased, instead of expiring at the end of the year.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Each will serve four years on a staggered basis, with terms expiring June 30 on the year they are appointed.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • An appeals court dismissed the suit in 2006, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • He can not be prosecuted in the U.S. as the statute of limitations has expired on the murder in Aruba.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The funds received each month remain on the card without expiring as long as the card remains in regular use.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
  • That pause was set to expire at the end of this year with the tariff then increasing to 50 percent, so this extension is a welcome reprieve.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The legislative compromise hammered out by the unions and fast-food companies is due to expire in 2029.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
  • On Monday, Durrett said the terms of the members of the committee are three years so even if someone was appointed in 2020, his term has expired.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Eagles were awarded a penalty corner just before the first half expired and Baldy put away a diving back-handed shot to extend the lead.
    — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023

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