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Example sentences for "wastrels"

Lexicographically close words:
wasteth; wastewater; wastfull; wasting; wastrel; wat; watah; watch; watchcare; watchdog
  1. The pictures of these forlorn wastrels people a certain corner of the mind, and one can make the ragged brigade start out in lines of deadly and lurid fire at a moment's warning, until there is a whole Inferno before one.

  2. It was only the absence of the wastrels and those who preyed upon them, and the quiet of nights after raucous revelry, that made the place seem dead.

  3. Ascalon was shut up; the howling of its wastrels was stilled.

  4. We have no place in the scheme of things for the wastrels who wear neither eye-glasses nor spats, therefore I believe that it would be good for the nation if many of the children of the poor were fattened, killed, and eaten.

  5. The children of the poor who cannot become workers become wastrels; the rich wastrels wear eye-glasses and spats.

  6. Did they not rescue these men most of them would sink utterly; indeed, according to their own testimony many of such wastrels were snatched from suicide.

  7. The tramps, the occasionally employed, the unemployed--the wastrels of the city and country.

  8. At the top of the new society will tower the magnate, the new feudal baron; at the bottom will be found the wastrels and the inefficients.

  9. Other wastrels of the same type lodge with Kuvalda.

  10. In the last Act the other wastrels are collected together.

  11. His vague notion was that at such a moment of high crisis the two wastrels ought to have had the decency to refrain from wasting.

  12. He would have taken it for a further proof of the hollowness of the opposition to the great Home Rule Bill; but the spectacle of a couple of wastrels in the Liberal Club annoyed and shamed him.


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