Waste (verb)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 502.

1. Bill wastes all his money on beer and cigarettes. 2. Don't leave the light on - you're wasting electricity.3. I wasted 40 minutes waiting for a bus this morning. 4. I must have wasted two whole hours trying to fix this machine. 5. Let's not waste any more time on this. 6. Letting the water run while you brush your teeth wastes water. 7. One of the men threatened to waste the bank teller if he didn't get the money. 8. Sometimes she feels she's wasted her life. 9. Stop wasting time. We have to finish this by five o'clock. 10. The school kitchen wastes an awful lot of food. 11. Back in the United States, Alvin wasted no time in proposing ways of doing that on future modern dance tours.12. By fencing money into line items, in other words, we waste billions of dollars every year. 13. He had a remote manner and didn't waste an atom of energy talking to anyone on the set except Zimmer. 14.I felt enough time had been wasted, but time didn't seem to mean anything to Brando.15. She wasted no time in writing to me and commanding me to return home at once. 16. The guests with a morning to waste until the ceremony at two o'clock got under everyone's feet. 17. You actually hope the time and money spent on insurance will be wasted. 18. The irony of the situation was not wasted on me. 19. At seventy-three, her days were too short to be wasted on slumber. 20. Compassion could only lead to increased confusion, for it would be wasted on her. 21. He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell. 22. Her effort was wasted on me. 23. I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend. 24. It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it. 25. It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority. 26. Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home. 27.His muscles were slowly wasting away because of his illness. 28. There was nothing we could do -- she just wasted away and within six weeks she was dead. 29. If the patient does not first surrender to a fungus, bacterium or cancer, he wastes away. 30. In the aquarium, without a fish as a companion, some anemones eventually waste away and die.