Sentence examples for squandered much from inspiring English sources

Ever cautious, McClellan squandered much of his advantage by waiting more than 17 hours before getting underway.

A holdover from the bare-knuckle days, he had squandered much of his fortune during years of drunken carousal.

However, the UN squandered much of its credibility in this context during the time of a coup in 2007.

Since then, he has squandered much of his initial support and seems uncertain as to where he is heading.

Her second husband squandered much of her fortune in the stock market, so the match was short-lived.

Local people complained that the Navy had squandered much of the $400 million cleanup budget on expensive helicopter transports.

He risks squandering much of that by seeking confrontation rather than the political consensus he needs to improve the lot of poorer Bolivians.

Since 11 September, America has managed to squander much goodwill, an astonishing achievement for a country that had had thousands of entirely innocent civilians brutally murdered.

Five years earlier, after the drowning of her son, she fled Russia for France, where she took a lover whom she allowed to squander much of her fortune.

There Hussey forged a reputation as a scorer of triple centuries in county cricket while Swann was the "Jack the Lad", who appeared to be squandering much of his talent.

"They're squandering much of the advantage of incumbency and redefining Bush in an entirely political and partisan manner," said Jim Jordan, a spokesman for the Media Fund, a Democratic group running advertisements against Mr. Bush.