Sentence examples for squander something from inspiring English sources

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And more than anything, these visitors want a guarantee that they aren't going to squander something precious: a great meal in a great city.

They want to talk to you, they want to shake your hand, they want to eat your food and learn about why it's so important to everybody else in here.' " And more than anything, these visitors want a guarantee that they aren't going to squander something precious: a great meal in a great city.

This discourse of waste, as a classificatory register, imposes a powerful moral injunction not to squander something potentially precious.

Don't squander something that advances the cause.

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That all sounds pretty positive, but it does run the risk of squandering something that has shown such unusual durability.

I estimate that the pols have squandered something like 150 trillion, or 30% of Japan's GDP, through dubious TFB investments.

That this opportunity has been squandered is something for Rangers fans to contemplate.

The film features some of Hollywood's most watchable – a likeably on-autopilot Carell, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon, Emma Stone – and squanders them something rotten.

Wilson, indeed, had played a part in establishing Eliot's reputation as such, having gushed, in his era-defining study "Axel's Castle" (1931), that the poet-critic had an "infinitely sensitive apparatus for aesthetic appreciation" — a sensitivity presumably not worth squandering on something as puerile and formulaic as mysteries.

Wilson, indeed, had played a part in establishing Eliot's reputation as such, having gushed, in his era-defining study "Axel's Castle" (1931), that the poet-critic had an "infinitely sensitive apparatus for aesthetic appreciation"—a sensitivity presumably not worth squandering on something as puerile and formulaic as mysteries.

But while the puzzle-platformer wasn't in the Return to Earth bracket of unplayable brokenness, again the Who licence had been squandered on something of a stinker.

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