Sentence examples for a frightful waste of from inspiring English sources

She instructed us all to be "winners, not whingers", as if thinking that the whole idea is a frightful waste of money doomed to reach a humiliating end was an indication of missing moral fibre.

Love is a terrible waste of time.

This is a tremendous waste of resources".

It came on suddenly, with the second blow — a frightful kind of joy.

A single ski-jumping accident can become a frightful bit of Olympic folklore.

The BoardofDeputies is a frightful bag of disputatious Jews and the editor of the JewishChron is a prat.

I'll probably make a frightful mess of it,' he sighs, 'but then there's a very relaxed atmosphere there.

And Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner, had acquired a face full of gray scruff that stood as a frightful symbol of the 1998 lockout.

This date has of course become largely associated with the humble haggis: to some the embodiment of culinary excellence, to others, a frightful concoction of offal and oats.

"There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animal," he said.

And for all those eyeballs on-line, marketing consumes a frightful chunk of revenues.