squandering

How To Use squandering In A Sentence

• Rather than giving to those countries in most need, O'Neill said, ‘We have an obligation to plant our resources where they will yield growth, rather than squandering precious seeds in unfertile soil.’
• I didn't care over-weeningly for it for personal gratification; and in my philosophy I completed the circle, finding myself as equable with the lack of a ten-cent piece as I was with the squandering of scores of dollars in calling all men and hangers-on up to the bar to drink with me. Chapter 18
• Our verdict: this policy is ill-considered, and the military is squandering a golden moment to effect meaningful personnel reform.
• Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
• He should understand that hard-working British taxpayers do not want him squandering our tax money overseas when it could be used to help British people.
• He also risks squandering his opportunity to be remembered as a genuine reformer. Times, Sunday Times
• Yet there is a hint of trepidation as he voices his fears that his team might struggle to get out of their squandering habits.
• He has strained against every nettlesome one of them - counter-attacking and squandering valuable time that should have been used to promote his message.
• More than most well-educated, middle-class talents of his generation, he footled his life away as a forlorn, frustrated flaneur, squandering several inherited fortunes to achieve renown only under a false name playing an elaborate practical joke.
• There's so much to do in Vegas that squandering your money at the tables seems like a waste.