Sentence examples for wasting things from inspiring English sources

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I was brought up in the postwar generation so I'm good at not wasting things, and appalled by people who are wasteful.

"I just hate wasting things," he says.

Another time, he wrote to me, "I do not know the meaning of 'Green Architect.' I have no interest in 'Green,'Ecoco,' and 'Environmentally Friendly.' I just hate wasting things".

By Dana Goodyear Ban, who has been celebrated for his socially conscious architecture, says, "I have no interest in 'Green,'Ecoco,' and 'Environmentally Friendly.' I just hate wasting things".

1 BAL TASHCHIT, a rabbinic expression for not wasting things.

As the groans of pain subside, he tells me about his time in the garden, of how in the past four years he has come to love worms and apple trees, and of how, perhaps most of all, he loves "not wasting things".

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"I hate wasted things," says Mussard, who spent afternoons as a child watching the Hermes leather workers, or the three women who repaired clients' gloves.

The extent to which we waste things becomes even more of an affront in times of austerity – and we were impressed by the number of great ideas for making use of otherwise wasted food, buildings or land.

If more wedding guests looked me in the eyes and asked me how I was, would the fact that I can't afford to waste things make me less of a person?

"We're taught not to waste things, but in the context of 'don't waste money,'" Romer says.

I can't waste things.

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