Sentence examples for the wasting of time from inspiring English sources

"Don't feed the trolls" is the popular expression, warning against the wasting of time and energy in fruitless argument.

So the wasting of time occurs so much more egregiously, very often, than the wasting of money.

She is irritated by the demagoguery, exasperated by the petty rivalries, frustrated by the wasting of time.

While the plots and characters vary, the dominant themes don't: the small injustices - the arbitrary, capricious exercise of boss power - and the wasting of time.

NATHAN FELDMAN, NEW YORK CITY As long as you don't lie (or do anything else that would be unethical in a conventional conversation), there's no problem with this, unless you count the wasting of time.

Massachusetts passed a law in 1663 making the wasting of time a crime: "No person, householder or other shall spend his time idly or unprofitably, under pain of such punishment as the court shall think meet to inflict".

"The waste of time was simply prodigious.

The waste of time and money stung.

The waste of time and money is monumental.

Most annoying of all, of course, is the waste of time.

The waste of time and space, as well as paper and transport, increasingly offends me.