Sentence examples for wasted from inspiring English sources

"Determining where this capital is spent needs to be an important issue for investors, otherwise there is going to be a lot of capital wasted in coming years on developing fossil fuel reserves that cannot be burned".

The boom in gift cards is a kind of socially tolerable version of this: the cards are somehow more personal than cash, and they're also not going to be wasted on an unwanted gift.

Recyclable post-consumer packaging with an estimated market value of $11.4bn is wasted annually.

That is the norm in tennis and cricket, where challenges in the bank have been known to be used frivolously rather than wasted.

The smooth-talking Streatham MP who increased his majority by more than 10,000 has wasted no time in setting out his case about where Labour went wrong: not aspirational enough, too much focus on the very rich and very poor, and a failure to be pro-business.

"I got the line-up wrong and we wasted 45 minutes," Diego Simeone admitted.

Before the penalty Augenthaler wasted West Germany 's best chance.

To add salt to the wound of those who felt this was wasted cash, despite Sheffield producing many sporting talents in this period (including Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis), Don Valley Stadium, where Ennis trained, finally closed in September 2013 due to extreme financial pressures, and has since been demolished.

Jermain Defoe wasted no time in reminding Roy Hodgson exactly what he'll be missing by leaving the England striker out of his World Cup squad this week.

A 45-year-old suburban Minneapolis man wasted little time Thursday in claiming one-third of a $448m Powerball jackpot, coming forward only hours after realizing he had won to reveal his good fortune to the world.

However, children's social care is still based on a complex web of legislation – which leaves a postcode lottery where entitlement is difficult to understand and time is wasted arguing about whether a child is eligible for social care.