Sentence examples for squander a lot from inspiring English sources

Partly because the market has recently favored U.S. blue-chip stocks of the sort found in this fund, partly because of its low overhead and partly because actively managed funds squander a lot of dollars trying to beat the index, the Vanguard 500 Index Fund beat 86% of all stock funds last year and a higher percentage of all stock funds over the past decade.

He has squandered a lot of years he had here".

"They squandered a lot of their retirement money on my legal bills," the younger Mr. Clancy said.

But like most family films nowadays, the movie squanders a lot of energy righteously huffing and puffing its message: let kids dream.

"Like most family films nowadays, the movie squanders a lot of energy righteously huffing and puffing its message: let kids dream," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times.

I've been thinking of her generation — the one that saved rather than spent, preserved rather than squandered — a lot lately.

"The Grapes of Wrath" builds considerable goodwill in its first two and a half hours, then squanders a lot of it.

The temptation to go for a big finish and a direct statement squanders a lot of the subtlety that precedes it.

The Obama administration squandered a lot of potential good will early on by adopting banker-friendly policies that failed to deliver economic recovery even as bankers repaid the favor by turning on the president.

It's no secret that Mozilla squandered a lot of time and energy on various projects that went nowhere (think its mobile phone OS, IoT services, creating a built-in video chat service, etc).

I guess I've squandered a lot of chances.