Sentence examples for wasting from inspiring English sources

The phrase "wasting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to the act of using something carelessly or without purpose, often related to time, resources, or opportunities. Example: "I feel like I am wasting my time on this project that is going nowhere."

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wasting

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Present participle of waste

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People I know are disillusioned with the system and want PR and don't believe in mainstream politics and I realise that although there is always room for improvement and modernisation, politics is always going to involve compromise and I feel those of my age who hold unrealistic ideological notions are wasting the opportunity many people across the world are denied.

"Novartis are wasting their money and patient's and public money, and risking the sight of many patients who cannot afford Lucentis, by attempting to market Lucentis as an alternative to Avastin when there is no significant clinical advantage to patients".

Importantly, what it shows is that charges brought for perverting the course of justice or wasting police time for such "false" allegations need to be considered in the context of the total number of prosecutions brought for those offences.

Hawley seemed to think they were wasting everyone's time.

That year the health minister, María Isabel Rodríguez, made a dramatic appeal to the international community for help, telling them: "It is wasting away our populations".

Labor senator Penny Wong accused her Liberal colleagues of wasting more than an hour of the committee's time with their "book club".

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The Spanish federation said the committee had been unable to detect "deliberate time-wasting" on Messi's part but only "a normal reaction from someone who had suffered an aggression by a spectator".

The remaining minutes were frantic, if marred by some cynical time-wasting on behalf of the visitors.

Barcelona's appeal against Lionel Messi's yellow card for time-wasting after he was hit on the head by a plastic bottle in Sunday's La Liga game at Valencia has been rejected by the Spanish football federation.

Lionel Messi's yellow card for time-wasting after he was apparently hit on the head by an object thrown from the crowd in Sunday's La Liga game at Valencia has been rescinded by the Spanish federation.

Obafemi Martins doesn't train often either, but again that shouldn't be a problem, and Eddie Johnson had to go for a shoulder scan after being brought down hard against LA (only to have the referee accuse him of time-wasting).

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