Sentence examples for at profligacy from inspiring English sources

"These men emerge from cars already sprinting," said one local observer.Many Africans are ambivalent about their leaders' extravagance; disgust at profligacy mingles with pride at the display.

Together the pair added 80 before Sarfraz, with the new ball imminent, clobbered Moeen to deep midwicket, which left his captain shaking his head at the profligacy of it at such a time.

Whenever we go to southern Italy in spring, I am always a bit shocked at nature's profligacy: at this time of year, the lemon trees practically throw off their fruit.

It this were correct, listeners would be right to feel outraged at such profligacy.

When haven't people of middle age looked askance at the profligacy of kids in their field?

He laughed, put his head in hands in mock horror at his profligacy, and said: "I don't know".

In Mark and Matthew, he appears to be driven by indignation at Jesus' profligacy in allowing himself to be anointed with an expensive ointment, which could have been sold for money to give to the poor.

My first encounter with IKEA was in the freshman-year dormitory, where I marvelled at the profligacy of classmates who, that September, and each one thereafter, ordered a new couch from IKEA — and paid the ninety-nine-dollar delivery fee! (My roommates and I settled for a hand-me-down, which we covered with a sleeping bag and doused in Febreze).

While Shiels was surely fizzing at such profligacy, McCoist was forced to withdraw the injured Dorin Goian for 22-year-old Ross Perry, then winced as David Healy's "goal" was ruled offside.

The president needs to persuade the country to invest in the future and pay for the past — past profligacy — all at the same time.

The problem though, certainly in UAE, has been that their role has been both to take wickets while at the same time stifle the opposition to compensate for the profligacy at the other end.