Sentence examples for greatest waste of time from inspiring English sources

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John Kenneth Galbraith, the economist who devised the phrase "the conventional wisdom," once told me that following sports was the second greatest waste of time known to America, after daytime television.

At a rally in Henderson, Nevada, earlier this month, Trump told supporters: "If I don't win, this will be the greatest waste of time, money and energy in my lifetime, by a factor of 100".

After casting his vote, Trump now has a few presumably stressful-as-fuck hours to blow before his campaign party starts at 6 30 PM. "If we don't win," Trump said Monday at his final campaign stop in western Michigan, "this will be the single greatest waste of time, energy, and money in my life".

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As Henry wanly observes at one point in the book: "Travel can be a great waste of time".

Many classic recipes say to butter the mold once, put it in the freezer and then butter it again -- a great waste of time.

Forcing the government to take scientists off their lab benches to testify in court is a great waste of time and money — and unlikely to change the outcome of many, if any, trials.

Here are three specific solutions to overcome Thomas L. Friedman's depiction of President Bush's second term as "The Great Waste of Time": Make computer literacy a graduation requirement from junior high school; tax all wages, not just those up to $90,000, to resolve the Social Security problem; make Medicare eligibility progressive, as in taxes.

Some people may feel inclined to sit around and do nothing, but this is a great waste of time.

Doing homework can also be a great waste of time, and when you're done, a lot of people like to go to sleep after that.

Maybe the greatest waste of all was time.

Let's take a look at nine more of the greatest wastes of money, time and space in modern history: There's something characteristically Putinesque about this macho gesture, to link the 5,000 inhabitants of Russky Island with their neighbours in the larger city of Vladivostock (population 600,000).

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