Sentence examples for time is squandered from inspiring English sources

Idiom

For the time being.

For the time being indicates that an action or state will continue into the future, but is temporary.

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Precious time is squandered interviewing current longtime residents (including the inevitable part-time transvestite), who have little to say beyond the obvious.

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The last thing we want to do with our dwindling leisure time is squander it in stasis.

Much newsprint and air time were squandered in the first half of the "decade before the storm" on revelations of sexual impropriety in the Oval Office and the inconsequential ripples from the Whitewater scandal.

Where is the helpful government update on the ongoing farcical situation, which is leading to great numbers of claimants successfully contesting unfair assessments of their fitness for work – or further information on how much time and money is squandered processing all these mistakes?

It's one of the few times an opportunity for corny, predictable humor is squandered.

No detail is squandered.

This is squandered engagement.

Knowledge is squandered unless it is shared.

And even if one particular novella fails to satisfy, very little reading time has been squandered – besides which, here's another one ready to go.

Instead the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, or D.O.S., as the coalition was called, failed to galvanize itself into an effective force for change, giving many voters the impression that valuable time had been squandered.

But, it's a foolish executive, who allows his time to be squandered.

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