In the midst of the applause that followed, Clarence left the assembly; he could not endure the thought that any duller or more commonplace speaker should fritter away the spell which yet bound and engrossed his spirit.
And as thou hast chosen to fritter away the time in making love to her, thou hast taken the best way to lose her.
I couldn't fritter away the little capital I had when mamma died, and then wait for starvation.
Napheys says: "Not many men can fritter away a decade or two of years in dissipation and excess, and ever hope to make up their losses by rigid surveillance in later years.
They fritteraway their own affections, and pride themselves on their conquests over the female heart; triumphing in having so nicely fooled them.
Ester, do you see how people who ask God to help them in every little thing which they have to decide--in the least expenditure of money--can after that deliberately fritter it away?
You fritter your mental energies in fretting until you are incapable of real thought, and being unable to think your way out you get excited.
It exhibits to our view a disposition to fritter away the enormities of the British Government, and a determination to justify them in every act of barbarity, however unjustifiable in its circumstances, or however shocking in its operation.
Katherine finished making the toast, and stacking it up in a tempting pile she set the plate in the hot ashes to keep warm while she turned her attention to mixing the corn fritter batter.
I refuse to fritter away my time," said Uncle Teddy, hungrily helping himself to hominy.
He evidently determined to fritter his resources on no operations that could not be concerted and rapidly effective.
Apples and other fruits may also be prepared, coarsely chopped, stirred into a plain fritter batter, and dropped by small spoonfuls into smoking hot fat, finishing as already directed.
Make a plain fritter batter, using the clam liquor (or that and milk) in place of milk.
The "lower life," framed for correspondence with the outward world of multiplicity, was always tending to fall downwards, and fritter the powers of the self among external things.
The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies.
Shilly-shally~, to trifle or fritteraway time; to be irresolute.
And the world, for which he owned reluctantly that she yet lived too much, had, nevertheless, seemed rather to enlarge and animate the natural nobleness of her mind, than to fritter it down to the standard of its common votaries.
But how can you, Godolphin, with your talents, fritter away life on these baubles?
They are made up of littles, and yet, if we fritterthem away, they are gone past recovery.
The last murmur of the waters seems to say, "You can fritter away nothing over which we flow.
But he intended to take Vicksburg, and he did not intend to fritter away the energies of his army in little side expeditions which in no important way could affect the general result.
No, in my heart of hearts, I feel that our love was not meant for the stages of life through which I have already passed; it would have made us miserable to see it fritter itself away, and to remember what it once was.
I want to keep it in my purse, and fritter it away just as I like.
A full back has to keep his energy for his work, and not fritter it away over stupid books.
But are you tofritter away the time between this and then?
Let us notfritter away our imaginations and our hopes on the subordinate and non-essential accompaniments, but concentrate all their energy on the one central thought.
The unity brought into life thereby will issue in calm blessedness, contrasted wondrously with the divided hearts and aims which fritter our days into fragments, and make our lives heaps of broken links instead of chains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fritter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
