Sentence examples for squandered in a from inspiring English sources

But coupled to weapons like this one, fighters' lives can be squandered in a snap.

The spirit of that uprising has apparently been squandered in a country that seems permanently gripped by political paralysis.

The danger is that this, the biggest opportunity for reform since 1945, is squandered in a race for electoral advantage.

The wealth it generated was squandered in a number of disastrous investments, as Nauru tried its hand as an early sovereign-wealth fund, and got its fingers burnt.

Sid Caesar's prodigious talents, for instance, are squandered in a lame story about a man so hung over he can't remember the night before.

A half-promising premise -- that life on Earth is threatened by a rapidly evolving alien life form -- is squandered in a riot of overdone effects and underwritten jokes.

After Philip Humber was roughed up in the series opener, they needed a bounce-back effort from Gavin Floyd in Game 2. The Sox handed him a 5-1 first-inning lead, which Floyd squandered in an 8-5 loss that dropped his record to 6-9.

American resources and lives have been squandered in an inane effort that McCain aptly criticized before becoming a presidential candidate.

This term and its qualitative traits have been squandered in an industry historically defined by such a term.

Millions of dollars were squandered in building a levee system with respect to these outfall canals which was known to be inadequate by the corps's own calculations".

China's National Audit Bureau reported that more than $15 billion in government funds was squandered in 1999, a figure that is said to have stunned even the country's unflappable prime minister, Zhu Rongji.