Trifle, dawdle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time.
Lounge, dawdle, waste timein trifles, live in idleness.
He taught me to look for beauty and harmony, not to waste time in mean controversy or in futile regret, but to be always moving forwards, and welcoming every sign of confidence and goodwill.
But we don't waste time here; and if a man wastes time, out he goes.
He hates his brother who is the head of the family and he hates his brother's wife--for family reasons which it is not necessary to waste time in telling you.
I was sorry for the poor fellow' the captain of the Vanguard wrote me 'but we couldn't waste time in indulging his fancy.
Sears' protestations that he couldn't waste time in bed, that he had too many important things to attend to, went for nothing.
It was useless to waste time in trying to choose the one key wanted from the rest--the one key was not well enough known to her to be readily identified.
Don't waste time in asking questions; I'll tell you what has happened as we go on.
I don't want to waste time in unconsciousness," she said once.
Later, she grew glad to waste time: she understood how her father used to pray for drugs when he was too tired to pray for courage in those weary nights of his.
One more thing, gentlemen: we are not going to waste time in little bids; the upset price will be thirty ounces.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waste time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
