Sentence examples for be wasted with from inspiring English sources

"Is the precious time of Cabinet Councils to be wasted with stories?" the paper asked.

If a task could be done by a person, it was thought that the machine's time should not be wasted with it.

Part of your pitch is being ready to do "the ask" when you line up coffee meetings with influential people who can help you – they will not expect their time to be wasted with idle chit chat.

This gain would otherwise be wasted with the RTS/CTS scheme where all nodes have to listen to the medium and wait for a random amount of time for transmission to avoid the collision of signals.

Closer control can be obtained by variation of the coolant temperature, and air mass flow over the coil, but such systems can be thrown out of calibration, and measures should be taken to avoid unauthorized persons changing the control settings or energy will be wasted with no benefit in the final conditions.

True, convention interviews with artists have a tendency to devolve into a living and breathing puff piece, but here's hoping Cave won't let his time – and ours – be wasted with such predictability.

They didn't care that billions of dollars were being wasted with contractors given special deals.

A good minute or so is wasted with some tedious fannying around at the engagement.

"Far too much of that money was wasted, with fraud and error under Labour costing over £10bn".

"Far too much of that money was wasted, with fraud and error under Labour costing over £10 billion".

A lot of time was wasted with unnecessary things – much of it was spent talking about a giant rabbit, a big digression from the main plot.