I suppose they do," assented the Rose of Sharon, "and their daughters sometimes squander it, just as their sons squander their money.
It was strange that I began to be rather sorry for him, that I felt a certain reluctant regret that he should thus squander his powers against overwhelming odds.
I'm not at all sure that Victoria is going tosquander it," was Mrs. Pomfret's comforting remark.
If I die, that estate shall be Patty's, and he may neversquander it.
You've money enough to squanderon twenty such toys and not miss it.
At the camp they must perforce squander twenty or thirty minutes, Virginia and George pretending to take notes of what they saw and heard; and then they turned westward.
I AM going to squander it in a wild soulless revel of some sort," declared Anne gaily.
Perhaps, for aught I know, thou art about to squander those treasures that thou hast filched from the body of Menkau-ra, those treasures stored against the need of Egypt, upon wanton revels which shall complete the shame of Egypt.
It might be possible, that if A retained it for his own use, he might squander it unprofitably, and if it were paid to B, he might add it to his capital, and employ it productively.
And the converse would also be possible, B might squander it, and A might employ it productively.
You will only make yourself ridiculous; you will only squander money, of which you have none too much, and reap public mortification.
Reason has nothing to say in the matter; and I must not let you squander any of yours.
Poor Avarice one torment more would find; Nor could Profusion squanderall in kind.
One cannot always easily find the reason for which the world has sometimes conspired to squander praise.
No man needs to be so burdened with life, as to squander it in voluntary dreams of fictitious occurrences.
And he left us to wear out our youth and squander our lifetime in poring over and setting right the old garbled copies of the playhouse!
The Sirdar had been dissuaded by Captain Troup, one of his prisoners, from attempting futile negotiations, and advised not to squander lives in useless opposition.
She knows we have money and couldsquander it if we chose.
It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly.
I never have known what to do with money after my expenses were paid--can't squander it on myself without hurting myself, and nobody wants to do that.
You can't squandermoney on yourself without hurting yourself.
He that gathereth together by wronging his own soul, gathereth for others, and another will squander away his goods in rioting.
A man that loveth wisdom, rejoiceth his father: but he that maintaineth harlots, shall squander away his substance.
As little by little the treasures of Mithridates, conquered by Lucullus in the Orient, arrive in Italy, Italy begins anew to divert itself, to construct palaces and villas, to squander in luxury.
Nevertheless, he did not squander his money or fling it to the winds in one grand splurge.
At the close of the afternoon services he did not go home, but proceeded to squander the funds just withheld from China upon an orgy of the most pungently forbidden description.
For God's sake, my dear boy, do not squander away one moment of your time, for every moment may be now most usefully employed.
Between these two necessary studies, that of books in the morning, and that of the world in the evening, you see that you will not have one minute to squander or slattern away.
The fact was, these wicked advisers, who were ignorant of the source from whence his fortune was derived, were afraid, if he paid his debts, he would not have money left to squander upon them.
Health and Wealth We squanderhealth in search of wealth; We scheme and toil and save; Then squander wealth in search of health, But only find a grave.
There isn't a day that I don't shoot at something or other; and all I ask of any animal is to come within two hundred yards and I will squander a cartridge on him, and I never fail to hit the ground.
He is not content to squander his immense wealth in race-horses and champagne.
Nowhere, save in a secluded bar or a stately club, will you find a single man content to be alive and to squander the leisure that God has given him.
For my own part, I would rather grow fat after the Russian manner, or squander my whole substance at roulette.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
