Sentence examples for wasting a bit from inspiring English sources

Snacks are very good for wasting a bit of time while in the car and will stop you from spending money at a service station.

Mundo Livre S.A. is an amiable, slightly sloppy band, and they wasted a bit of time between songs.

I tried to waste a bit more of my life with sleep while he whined, but he refused to be ignored.

At the same time, fewer Californians are buying new turf, says Jurgen Gramckow, who grows the stuff and says sales at his farm in Oxnard are down 20% this year.The drought, one of the worst in a century, has pushed the state to waste a bit less water.

(They) did not waste a bit of food.

The wide players had no need to go wide or go forward and Farms (Paul Farman) should have kicked it into the corner flag and wasted a bit more time and slowed the game up, it's game management.

However it seems like a great opportunity for an early adopting student to pick up a nice laptop at a fairly nice price and waste a bit of time on Skyrim between, during, and after class.

The pragmatic reinforcers concerned in this paper are negative polarity items (NPIs) in the form of 'one'-unit word1-noun, as shown in (1).2 (1) 不浪費一粒糧食 bú__làngfèi__[yí__lì__liángshí] NEG__waste__one__CLF__food (They) did not waste a bit of food.

I built a picket fence in August a few years back, and wasted a good bit of arm strength and a few pints of sweat sawing off the tops of posts.

He is a lovely horse and to be riding him around the course is a luxury, so I'm sad I have wasted it a bit.

The minute-long clip wastes quite a bit of energy explaining how one can stream "entertainment" via electronic devices.