Sentence examples for wasted from inspiring English sources
wasted
Past of waste
The word 'wasted' is correct and usable in written English. You can use this word to describe something that has been spent foolishly or carelessly, or something that has been ruined or destroyed. For example, "After a lot of hard work, all our efforts were wasted.".
"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.
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