Examples of 'were expendable' in a sentence

Meaning of "were expendable"

were expendable ~ in this context, this phrase refers to people or things that are considered non-essential or not necessary. It is often used in military settings to describe personnel or resources that can be sacrificed without significant loss

How to use "were expendable" in a sentence

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were expendable
They were expendable and were required to do dangerous tasks.
And the people who were expended were expendable.
You were expendable at the time.
They decided that you were expendable.
They were expendable too.
I always felt that the rest of us were expendable or replaceable.
They Were Expendable would be his first feature in five years.
And your friends were expendable.
Bulkeley contributed to a book about his PT squadron 's exploits, entitled They Were Expendable.
In all instances they were expendable in the service of the emperor.
You put my team in the line of fire like we were expendable.
People were expendable.
The message from that was that human beings were expendable.
Performing this dangerous work were expendable Christian conscripts from the Balkans.
That they were grunts, that they were expendable.

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A massacre, where lives were expendable as if they were disposable items.
Another, more cynical explanation is that the Kurds were expendable.
An8}They Were Expendable would be his first feature in five years.
We always knew we were expendable.
But the people were not, but up in space The machines were expendable.
But the Falun Gong were expendable.
No one man was bigger than the cause. We always knew we were expendable.
You wanted me to leave him. You were expendable at the time.
Money's not what makes this thing tick. And the people who were expended were expendable.
Other than her, the rest were expendable.
The squadron 's exploits were immortalized in the book and film They Were Expendable.
That 's why the others were expendable.
So I think with this, they had changed the American policy view - that they were expendable.
The next time they sent in marines . They were expendable too.
All institutions, cultural norms, traditions, and sentiments were expendable.
It doesn't matter though, they were expendable.
That jungle gym dates back to the 1930s, when the lives of children were expendable.
They took off, huh? Your friends were expendable.

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