Sentence examples for been wasted with from inspiring English sources

You know we've got seven weeks between Election Day and the end of the year, and three of those weeks have been wasted with this nonsense".

FareShare said it was now redistributing food that otherwise would have been wasted with an annual value of £28.7m, up from £22.4m last year.

The chief minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, recently said that much of the $1.5 billion a year that the state spent on water projects appeared to have been wasted, with virtually no increase in the amount of irrigated farmland over the last decade.

Cy came into my room not long ago, grumpier than Ed Asner in "Up," bemoaning how everyone else was awake, and for all he knew, they'd been watching cartoons and eating dessert for hours, and now his entire weekend, not to mention his entire life, had been wasted with sleep.

In a stated of shock, all she could think about was the whole weeks ration of butter had been wasted with slivers of glass sticking out everywhere, none of the food could be salvaged.

Book 3 of the Natural Questions is entitled On the waters of the earth and begins with reflections on the enormous time which the task of natural philosophy may consume; on time that has been wasted with worldly concerns; and the claim that it can be regained if we make diligent use of the present.

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.

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

"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".