Sentence examples for much squander from inspiring English sources

Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner, is a gift that Mantello doesn't so much squander as fail to unwrap.

It's difficult to say which Mailer did more — fulfill or squander his potential; perhaps he had to do so much squandering just to come close to fulfillment.

One of my childhood friends in Yamhill, Ore., pretty much squandered his life by dabbling with marijuana in ninth grade and then moving on to stronger stuff.

After much squandering of American blood and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan, he would reach out to Muslims, notably in a June 2009 address in Cairo.

As the 60s gave way to the 70s, Trocchi's addiction to heroin took its toll and his talent lay pretty much squandered.

5. Jennifer Capriati, Tennis (1990-2004) The sunny New Yorker not so much squandered her talent as watched it go up in a puff of marijuana smoke.

"I pretty much squandered it, I'd say.

THE first time it served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, in 2007-08, South Africa did much to squander its reputation as a beacon of human rights.

But that body has proved as ineffectual as its predecessor, stifling with South Africa's help criticism of the world's worst tyrants.Why has democratic South Africa done so much to squander its once acclaimed moral leadership?

Unless the White House politicizes 9/11 so much it squanders all that belief.

Address these problems and we will have much less "squandered talent".