Squander

//ˈskwɑn.dɚ//

"Squander" in a Sentence (15 examples)

First you squander your health to acquire money; then your money to get your health back.

Don't squander your newly earned money!

Do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

They shamelessly squander our money.

The President cannot afford to squander the opportunity to deliver good governance to his people.

Across Tunisia, jobless youngsters, including many college graduates, squander their days in coffee shops or homes, in a country where unemployment tops 30% in some places.

You shouldn't squander your money.

Algeria shouldn't squander its opportunities.

It's a squander of money.

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1886, Cora Pearl, Memoirs. "I have squandered money enormously.... I ought to have saved, but saving is not easy in such a whirl of excitement as that in which I have lived."

1746, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

As the game opened up, Bolton squandered a fine opportunity to equalise - Chris Eagles shooting straight at Szczesny - but then back came Arsenal.

[…]our ſquander’d Troops he rallies:[…]

[…]The Wiſe-mans folly is anathomiz’d / Euen by ſquandring glances of the foole.

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