Sentence examples for squandering on from inspiring English sources

The gap between what he is paid and what he will contribute pales in comparison with what the club is squandering on Andre Ethier or Brandon League.

The capital investment in sheep sheds would be huge, of course – but minute compared with what we have of late been spending on bankers, and surely far less than we are currently squandering on genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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.

Money could be squandered on badly designed poverty programmes or on bail-outs of failing companies.

But their talents are squandered on one of Aguilera's anxious impressions.

The day before Sept. 11, he declared that "every dollar squandered on waste is one denied to the war fighter".

Sadly, what could have been an important insight into one of the world's most powerful corporations was squandered on a self-indulgent, half-baked attempt at feminism.

These they squander on my fingers.

Beautiful music in both cases is squandered on unsustainable formats.

Critics argue that vast resources are squandered on care that is obviously futile.

No doubt plenty of venture capital will be squandered on dud fintech companies.