Sentence examples for squander in from inspiring English sources

And what the banks do not squander in loans, they waste on unneeded staff.

The credibility that Britain worked so hard to earn in Sydney only to squander in Wellington will again be on the line.

In its predominant sense of "to spend extravagantly and wastefully," it appeared in Thomas Nashe's 1593 religious tract: "Fooles shall squander in an houre, all the auarice of their ambitious wise Auncesters".

"ELDERLY persons are a treasure we squander in cajoleries and blandishments," laments Amin Maalouf as he explores the history of his Lebanese family without the benefit of the memories of the old aunts and cousins he had never thought to interrogate until it was too late.

In the meantime, a million African Americans continued to squander in slavery.

Who amongst us, which of our kin's breath will you squander in the name of blind justice.

But there are fears that taxpayers' cash will be squandered in renewed house price inflation.

That and more was squandered in Iraq.

McConaughey was also squandered in Christopher Nolan's overreaching Interstellar.

America's influence is too precious to be squandered in fits of narrow ideological pique.

Such funds, say the petitioners, have been squandered in "expensive, cost-ineffective projects".