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Example sentences for "squandering"

Lexicographically close words:
squamosals; squamous; squander; squandered; squanderer; squanders; squar; square; squared; squarehead
  1. If the father protested that Beach was squandering too much money, the mother shielded her son and wheedled Jim Hargis into giving him more.

  2. He idolized his son Beach, who spent his days hanging around his father's store and squandering money that the doting parent supplied.

  3. The morally and lawfully tolerated unlimited squandering of the products of common labor by irresponsible persons.

  4. To see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money.

  5. To see slimy and uncanny inhabitants of the lake rise up and menace you, denotes failure and ill health from squandering time, energy and health on illicit pleasures.

  6. When we arrived in Paris, instead of squandering your money, you should have made a home for us at once, as you promised.

  7. Life was not so pleasant after all, besides it seemed some consolation to her to have her share in squandering the cash.

  8. Her drunkard was certainly squandering his earnings with his comrades at the dram-shops of the neighborhood.

  9. They tell us that "the English people see with regret his Majesty's government squandering away the funds which had been granted to him.

  10. They look upon idleness and squandering as a profession.

  11. It causes the destruction and squandering of supplies, and, along with that, negligence in producing these.

  12. It is not, however, the direction given to the forces of production, but the squandering of them, that is injurious.

  13. Now she was squandering money like a Cleopatra; now she was crouching on the wet steps of Westminster Bridge, brooding over suicide.

  14. Sir John Denham also studied in this pasturing-ground of English genius; and here, after squandering all his money in gaming, he wrote an essay upon the vice that brings its own punishment.

  15. As to Ruscino (Roussillon near Perpignan) and other communities in Narbonese Gaul which early attained a Latin urban constitution, we can only conjecture that they received it contemporarily with Nemausus.

  16. But to have prickles amounts to a squandering of strength; they even constitute a twofold luxury, when, if we only chose to do so, we could dispense with them and open our hands instead.

  17. A king squandering public revenues on private pleasures, and an artisan pilfering nails and iron with an easy conscience because they only belong to the state, are guilty of crimes essentially the same.

  18. Vexations of every kind, robberies of private houses, squandering of public money, were committed by these monsters.

  19. Rid of them, I could cause you to cease your recklessness and prevent you from squandering what remained of your fortune.

  20. I resolved to marry your sister, for I felt she stood in great need of a faithful guardian who would care for her tenderly and prevent you from squandering her share of the fortune.

  21. These men had no horror of squandering a nickel, or many nickels.

  22. Squandering money upon empty pleasures--and with the dreadful plague of poverty spreading in the world!

  23. It complained of the unbearable weight of taxation and the distresses of the country, and of the squandering of the money extracted from the pockets of an oppressed and impoverished people to support sinecure placemen and pensioners.

  24. The reason I thought so, was that they have taken to squandering so much money.

  25. Here are people starving to death, and you talk of squandering money!

  26. More spilling of blood, more useless squandering of human life!

  27. I used always to pay for mine in the old days--but then, I was always squandering my money.

  28. He has given Himself for us that all our many sins against the eternal love and our guilty squandering of our hearts upon transitory treasures may be forgiven.

  29. A transient glory, a ruinous luxury, an ostentatious squandering of energy, born of illimitable senselessness.

  30. Thus, doubtless, weary of expansion and the useless squandering of their strength through the infinite void, the stars collect the germs of higher life in order to fertilize them in the depth of their bosom.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squandering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablation; absorption; assimilation; attrition; depletion; digestion; dissipation; drain; erosion; exhaustion; expenditure; extravagance; finishing; incontinence; ingestion; intemperance; lavishness; loss; prodigal; prodigality; profligacy; profligate; profusion; spendthrift; waste