Sentence examples for Squandered hours from inspiring English sources

In her calculations, such blandishments outweigh the inconveniences and squandered hours.

Music critics and fans alike have squandered hours debating what distinguishes a jazz from a cabaret singer.

I figured the beaches hadn't changed much, but I wondered about the erosion of another place in which, as a teenager, I had squandered hours in a trancelike state: Sound Spectrum.

It's not clear whether this is a Luddite impulse, a shrewd maneuver designed to enhance his glamorously elusive aura or simply a pragmatic decision not to squander hours at the beck and call of everyone with a keyboard and a screen name.

Of course not, and this friend of mine squandered countless hours, years even, on my calamities.

Shows, though, are a different matter: these days, with live performance such a big-ticket, premium income-stream for heritage acts, months of planning and development, and that element of surprise, are squandered within hours as fans rush to be the first to upload their shaky first-night cellphone footage onto YouTube.

Every night, Kirsten swears that she won't devote another minute to Lucy, and every day she squanders hours.

The creature proved a handful from the very first, grumbling to all about the muddled directions that had forced his chauffeur to squander hours driving around in a Möbius route, the expense of tolls and leaded regular, and the unanticipated effect of local mold spores on his precarious adenoids.

Indeed, I did one event last year whose moderator squandered the hour on pressing me to come clean on my relationship with my mother.

(After squandering countless hours trying to straighten this out, our architects said that next time they would prefer a single general contractor).

In the case of my friend, she is squandering many hours (and possibly days and weeks) fretting about what happened or what should have happened or the insult she is feeling.