Sentence examples for waste the lead from inspiring English sources

It will turn out to waste the lead inside the pencil.

"That's why we wasted the lead".

Jordan Burrow had headed the Imps into an early lead, but Ben Tomlinson wasted the chance to double the lead when he hit the post with a penalty.

How else to explain his waste of the lead paragraph in "Is Small and Cute What Surfers Want?" (State of the Art, Dec. 21), when he said, "It would be hard to imagine an activity less like surfing than sitting motionless in a chair, waiting for Web pages to download".

Captain McDougall wasted the chance to double the lead when her 30th-minute penalty was saved by keeper Julianna Draycott after a foul on Mead by Leah Galton.

It brought a fist-pumping celebration from Villas-Boas - but he was left frustrated when Spurs wasted the opportunity to double their lead just before half-time when Paulinho struck the outside of the post from Andros Townsend's pass.

But on this rare occasion that they provided a starting pitcher with early leads, Baldwin wasted the support in fantastic fashion.

People who can afford to waste water should lead the way in doing the opposite.

The Rockies wasted a 3-2 lead in the eighth but tied the game in the ninth on Larry Walker's solo homer off Greg Swindell.

Antibiotics in the waste can lead to the emergence and spread of mutants resistant to antibiotics, which would threaten the safety of food and human health.

Nikita Parris and the substitute Kosovare Asllani both wasted chances to increase the lead, while at the other end Beth England shot weakly at Karen Bardsley from Chelsea's only real opening of the match.