Sentence examples for to squander time from inspiring English sources

It's for this exact reason that the left can no longer afford to squander time and energy engaging the childish arguments of paid provocateurs.

President Obama, beset by bigger political difficulties, could hardly afford to squander time and capital on a congressional fight to get a more partisan figure like Larry Summers, his chief economic adviser, into the Fed seat, as he had intended to do back in January.

"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy," he observed in "On the Shortness of Life", perhaps the very first time-management self-help book.

Judge Rhodes indicated that he believed the city could not afford to squander any time in its efforts to restore services and fix its finances.

"Rip Van Winkle" is based on the Washington Irving tale of a man who prefers to squander his time at play instead of working.

After all, no one wants to squander their time beating a dead horse.

Reporters squander time to update members' websites, write TV headlines, and pursue other endless busywork.

It always astounds me that our government is willing to squander many times the auto bailout on banks.