Sentence examples for a plain waste from inspiring English sources

If you carry on as a victim, you will remain overwhelmed by nostalgia and "what if's" and that's a plain waste of life.

Unlike "time sink" or "time suck" or just plain "waste of time," "falling down the rabbit hole," when used in this sense, suggests not a total loss but a guilty pleasure.

Then there are jobs that fit in quadrant three – tasks that are urgent but not important – and finally in the fourth quadrant are the jobs that just plain waste your time, being neither urgent nor important.

Organic pollution is even more severe in Lower Sebou polluted by Gharb plain wastes with the means BOD5 vary from 19 to 76 mg l−1 (Bennasser et al. 1997).

As Barash and Lipton also point out in their book, there are many obvious benefits to monogamy, including the reality that courtship and mating are risky and leave humans (as well as other non-monogamous animals) "vulnerable to rejection, injury, bad choices, or just plain wasting of time and energy," not to mention sexually-transmitted diseases.

Each trap came with 50 feet of line and a plain white buoy, and we wasted about a month painting the buoys a garish blue and orange, not very traditional but smart as it happened, because garish orange is easy to spot from a distance.

A plain chronology seems manageable.

"A plain pine box.

A plain brick building.

Preferably a plain gray one.

A plain salesman could not.