Sentence examples for squander days from inspiring English sources

How many of us squander days, weeks or even years mired in unhappiness or lamenting that everything isn't perfect.

But as his wife, Isobel, a beautiful princess in jeopardy he meets along the way, remarks, "You squander your days in pursuit of a shadow".

Only a person who had lived an extraordinarily noble and healthy life, he answered — only an Übermensch, understood as one who overcomes the rancor and resentments that lead us to squander our days.

It's so easy to squander our days.

George Osborne told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the fund would be a way of "making sure money is not squandered on day-to-day spending".

"That's a way of making sure this money is not squandered on day-to-day spending but invested in the long-term economic health of the north to create jobs and investment there".

"The sovereign wealth fund is a very interesting idea which we want to explore as a way of making sure the money that comes from the shale gas that we're going to be pulling out of the ground is not squandered on day to day spending but invested in the long-term economic health of the north of England and other areas that host shale gas developments to create jobs and investment there".

To squander three whole days of holiday when I had no foreign destination to head for, no urgent DIY to do and no immediate plans to cultivate a hangover that would necessitate time off struck me as being the height of independent assertiveness.

But while Weir's solid play was hardly surprising, Daly continued to stun those who figured he had squandered his best days.

Fast-forward to the present, and you can see how this obsessive heritage lurches on among the women who line up outside Manolo Blahnik's boutique before dawn on sample-sale days, who squander their rent money on Jimmy Choos and who, this moment, can be seen slipping on the escalators at an H & M near you, in their towering wedge-heeled Kork-Ease knockoffs.

Health care has already consumed months of the Senate's time, and McConnell can hardly afford to squander any more legislative days on a measure that doesn't appear to be gaining steam.