Sentence examples for time squandering from inspiring English sources

They had too many responsibilities to waste time squandering love on an infant that might not survive.

He considered all this time squandered.

The new colonists brutally abused the old inhabitants and at the same time squandered their military rewards, sinking hopelessly into debt.

In late 2006, Ethiopian troops pushed out an Islamist movement that briefly controlled Mogadishu, but the transitional government at the time squandered that opportunity, and soon the Shabab were taking town after town.

The time squandered since Cook first thought about quitting should have been used instead to bed in Hales as an opening bat, and allowing a new captain to learn the ropes.

Voters don't care about it, the old hands say, and time spent on what's happening overseas is time squandered.

Through the album Ms. Newsom takes her time without squandering it.

Cutting rehabilitative services that provide correctional education and vocational training may seem like a tempting way to plug short-term budget gaps, but it actually ends up costing the system more over time — and squandering lives that could have been transformed.

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

Time to squander and squander until the night was over.

It takes a much shorter time to squander it.