Sentence examples for would have squandered from inspiring English sources

He acknowledges that he probably would have squandered it and says he is thankful he still has the monthly stipends.

Among other things, it would have squandered all those years invested in inculcating the recycling habit in New Yorkers, who for the most part are comfortable pitching stuff in the regular trash unless persuaded to do otherwise.

Stoudemire's put-back was not the most important play of the game, but it might have been its most emblematic – the exclamation point on a vintage performance without which the Knicks most certainly would have squandered yet another late lead against the Celtics.

Ateeq Javid, undefeated overnight, had managed an even worse shot to a poor loosener from Finn and when Barker chipped a sharp low return catch to the same bowler who did well to take the catch by his bootstraps – never easy for a tall fast bowler in his follow-through – it appeared that both sides would have squandered the conditions.

He came into his inheritance at the age of 12, developing over the next decade into a handsome but headstrong young lounge lizard who would have squandered his entire legacy at the gaming tables in London if his sensible mother had not rescued him.

Our country would be several hundred billion dollars richer, and the United States would not have squandered the good will it received from around the world in the wake of Sept. 11".

Nor would they have squandered political capital on grand, rhetorical projects that raised public suspicions, such as the failed EU constitution.Consider the case of nuclear energy.

If not, it would be yet another opportunity we have squandered.

They have squandered it.

Third, we have squandered resources.

Most oil-producers have squandered their bonanza.