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.
  • But bills that aimed to do so expired at the end of the year.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The latest one was set to expire at the end of this month.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The current deal expires at the end of the 2026 season.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • After that expired, the Rangers signed him to a two-year deal.
    — Sam Blum, The Athletic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • His contract was due to expire at the end of the season.
    — James Robson, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The county also had its own rules in place set to expire at the end of the month.
    — Julia Wickstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Note that some of these deals may have expired or sold out.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But that fund expires at the end of the current fiscal year.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
  • Moore missed a shot from the corner as the clock was expiring.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2024
  • The warning is set to expire at 10 a.m. CST but could be dropped as soon as storms clear the area.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The most recent union contract expired at the end of June.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 30 July 2024
  • And that will mean cuts of all sorts after the funding expires.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • That authority is set to expire at the end of the year.
    — WIRED, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, with that second contract set to expire, the city put out a call for new bids.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 12 Apr. 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
  • That news will come at the end of May (as options for those shows’ talent are set to expire).
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • The current three-year agreement is set to expire on May 1.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The names were all collected April 4-6. Platt’s contract was set to expire at the end of this year.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
  • But 20 years after the first SawStop was sold, most of those patents have now expired.
    — Chris Arnold, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Both Davies and Kimmich's deals expire on June 30 next year.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The contract for the cast members in question expired on June 16.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 9 July 2024
  • The news comes as McCarthy’s contract with the Cowboys is due to expire next week.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Both Ibaka and Hill are on contracts set to expire at the end of this season.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The ceasefire's six-week first phase expires this weekend.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The first phase – which has seen the release of 38 hostages held by Hamas, five of whom were freed separately to the deal, and thousands of Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel – expires on Saturday.
    — Mick Krever, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025

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