Sentence examples for plain waste from inspiring English sources

Unlike "time sink" or "time suck" or just plain "waste of time," "falling down the rabbit hole," when used in this sense, suggests not a total loss but a guilty pleasure.

Then there are jobs that fit in quadrant three – tasks that are urgent but not important – and finally in the fourth quadrant are the jobs that just plain waste your time, being neither urgent nor important.

If you carry on as a victim, you will remain overwhelmed by nostalgia and "what if's" and that's a plain waste of life.

Organic pollution is even more severe in Lower Sebou polluted by Gharb plain wastes with the means BOD5 vary from 19 to 76 mg l−1 (Bennasser et al. 1997).

As Barash and Lipton also point out in their book, there are many obvious benefits to monogamy, including the reality that courtship and mating are risky and leave humans (as well as other non-monogamous animals) "vulnerable to rejection, injury, bad choices, or just plain wasting of time and energy," not to mention sexually-transmitted diseases.

Using useful tracking tools and personal metrics to augment your fitness, share your progress with friends, help others work through some physical glitches or sleep issues, or for just plain time-wasting fun (when you have that time, that is).

So it's dismal, but the Department for Transport says the estimated £500m needed to bore a tunnel under the plain is a waste of money.

Dumpster diving prevents food waste, plain and simple.

Of course, in this situation, CAPEX constitutes corporate waste, plain and simple.

"Fell Ambition o'er the wasted plain / Triumphant guide his car".

"I decided that he would be plain spoken and not waste a lot of words.