Sentence examples for my squandered from inspiring English sources

When the veteran journalist Paul Lendvai published (in German) "My Squandered Country," an exposé of the Orbán government's corruption of the Hungarian public sphere, a coördinated campaign of criticism was mounted through government-controlled media, including the allegation that Lendvai had spied for state intelligence during the Communist period.

And I actually did love it, until my soul was crushed and my creativity squandered on projects that never impacted the real world.

Prominent among its sexually demented characters was one Canon Throbbing, a voyeuristic clergyman whose final speech includes what Mr. Bennett has said is a cry, or wail, from his own heart: "My life I squandered waiting, then let my chance go by".

Alas, my own shot making was so incompetent, I squandered my chances to pull off an upset and lost 26-3.

At any rate, as I think I've probably provided enough detail above to illustrate my point, the simple deal is that you squandered my friendship by lying to me over and over again.

As I walk away, I realize that I squandered my chance to ask him my burning question: how did you guys do this?

I was on academic probation, having squandered my first semester--and facing expulsion, unless I pulled up my grades.

I had squandered my pride.

I had squandered my mother's hard earned money on an exam I never would have cleared, and for a job I had never wanted to do.

After my parents had squandered their years of hard work on bad investments and gallivanting around the globe, we were in effect penniless and semi-homeless, and indeed would have been homeless if it wasn't for social housing.

Mr Ogden, who now lives in Canada, was reported in as saying: "years of my life were squandered solely because of Exeter's refusal to keep its written commitments and follow its own policies".