Sentence examples for squandered a fortune from inspiring English sources

Having squandered a fortune trying to assert its dominance, union with the NBA became an inevitability.

The two firms are in partnership with big retail chains and smaller local shops, which hold stock that they can tap into.Delivery startups such as Instacart and Postmates are also working closely with retailers to avoid the fate of Webvan, which squandered a fortune building its own warehouses.

Thorn, however, finally exhumed the facts of his life: he married a wealthy widow, became a judge in New Jersey, eventually became a drunk and, after squandering a fortune, sold news/papers on the streets of Plainfield.

To encourage reactionary Islam, squandering a fortune in bribes in the process, and help the Bolshevik revolution succeed while losing the war, does not say much for the abilities of the Kaiser and his lieutenants.

Their starting point is the arresting fact that a quarter or more of Medicare costs are incurred in the last year of life, which suggests that we are squandering a fortune to buy a few weeks or months of a life spent hooked to machinery and consumed by fear and discomfort.

But not before squandering a small fortune on defending the indefensible.

Canada squandered a 2-1 lead.

Wolfsburg also squandered a lead.

Brown also squandered a 3-1 lead.

"Now we squandered a piece of it.

If I had a fortune to invest in begonias, I would squander a vast portion of it on the beautiful, pricey hybrids from the English firm of Blackmore & Langdon (available from White Flower Farm, 800-503-9624 or online at www.whiteflowerfarm.com).