| In this sense, their very dependability was linked with their expendability. |
| The expendability of the Steel City's injured workers did not mean that all were merely tossed aside and forgotten. |
| As hard as expendability is on workers themselves, increased productivity is the way progress is made. |
| Those that were hanged or beheaded were almost never drug barons and kingpins – in most cases they were low-level carriers, almost always selected for their expendability, and often suffering from intellectual disability. |
| Although there were four more books, this hint of the hero's expendability gave Dibdin's creation a sense of fragility that few series characters attain. |
| Ivy, after ten years in Interstel, you should know that experience and expendability are synonymous. |
