Sentence examples for the squandered from inspiring English sources

It was interesting to note how many referred to the squandered playoff opportunity against Minnesota.

After the child support and the squandered millions, Kenny Anderson was the one who registered for college, who mastered the digital classroom, who studied in his spare time.

Typical, I thought, for my life as I lived it then — in bewilderment, frowning at the futility and resenting the squandered time as it unrolled and flapped around me — seemed ragged and plotless: random, rancorous, out of my control, meandering from disorder to chaos, in the general direction of oblivion.

After the last shutdown ― a two-week closure in late 2013 ― the Office of Management and Budget was able to put a price tag on the squandered labor: roughly $2 billion for 6.6 million furloughed work days.

In 2004 Barr published The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton.

The article that may have started it all was "The Squandered Presidency," by the Brookings foreign policy expert Richard Haass, in the Spring 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs.

In polling places, people demanded an end to the "squandering" of public funds.

The Devils squandered the conference lead, which they held until the final week of the season.

With two timeouts left, the Cowboys squandered the last 27 seconds of regulation against the Cardinals.

The Democratic Party has squandered the enormous opportunity bequeathed to it by the election of 2008.

The Lions squandered their chances in the first half.