Sentence examples for misspent on from inspiring English sources

Independent investigators into the matter found that millions of dollars had been misspent on big contracts.

Businessmen complain that the money is being misspent on a bloated, debt-ridden public sector.

With the cameras rolling, he said it was "completely untrue" that federal money had been misspent on work never done.

But silky house-made tofu was misspent on a weird curry-and-black-pepper-flavored custard that traveled under the name "mabo tofu".

The trillions of dollars spent and, often, misspent on wars and domestic bureaucracies were no longer available to fill the hole left by the implosion of the private economy.

For two-thirds of this plan, at least, we are talking about money that is currently being spent or misspent on health care that could be spent in a more effective strategy.

Money misspent one year is clawed back the next.

"I'm not the prettiest you've ever seen," she notes on the relatively mellow ballad Moments, an other) ode to her misspent youth, "on the good days I am charming as fuck".

A state comptroller's audit has found that the failing Roosevelt Union Free School District misspent money on trips to amusement parks as far away as Virginia, spent $5,000 for a consultant for a prekindergarten graduation and bought computers only to leave them in storage for more than a year.

Someone in Millbank must be a closet Maceo & the Macks fan, or treasure hazy memories of a misspent youth on the teeming dancefloor of Dingwalls or amid the euphoric hordes that yearly converge on Jay's sessions at the Notting Hill Carnival.

(When asked if he himself had ever fit the description of "drunken sailor," Mr. McCain waxes long-windedly: "I must say that in my misspent youth, on occasion I might have enjoyed the company of my fellow pilots at happy hour, and the convivial atmosphere was conducive to a certain number of libations").