Squander Sentence Examples

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  • It's so easy to squander valuable time browsing social media.

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  • In spite of his somewhat extravagant living, he left an ample fortune to his spendthrift son, who did his best to squander it as soon as possible.

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  • Do not squander the time you have for the test because there are many questions to answer.

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  • Amelia tried her hardest not to squander her attention on people that would not return it.

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  • When you go to Las Vegas, try not to squander your money in the casinos. Go see a show!

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  • Remember not to squander your resources within the first week because this backpacking trip will take at least one month.

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  • Regular industrial work is however handicapped by competition with the tourist trade in its several branches - acting as guides and camp servants, manufacture and sale of " souvenirs ' (carved toys and trinklets in mother - of-pearl and olive-wood, forged antiquities and the like), and the analogous trade in objets de piete (rosaries, crosses, crude religious pictures, &c.) for pilgrims. Travellers in the country squander their money recklessly, and these trades, at once easy and lucrative, are thus fatally attractive to the indolent Syrian and prejudicial to the best interests of the country.

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  • Tim took a class on financial matters so he would not squander the cash he recently won in the lottery.

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  • You’ve got to be organized, so you don’t squander time and earnings potential.

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  • Time management systems are essential business tools, for time is a luxury few small businesses can afford to squander, because time is money.

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  • When the choice before us is life or death, we so often squander wealth on the waste of war.

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  • Those two boxers aren't the only ones to squander away an embarrassment of riches.

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  • But here we go again preparing to squander billions on weapons that we will never use.

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  • That was the origin of the expeditions into Italy on which the house of Valois was two centuries later to squander the resources of France unavailingly, compromising beyond the Alps its interests in the Low Countries and upon the Rhine.

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  • I think we seem to squander the legacy we have been given, often through complete apathy.

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  • Meditation focuses on a type of thanksgiving for what has been acquired and not to squander when things are plentiful.

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  • You don't want to squander your home's equity and have nothing to show for it afterwards.

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  • The son made the poor decision to squander his entire inheritance on fancy sports cars and soon regretted it.

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  • The parents couldn't trust their young children to not squander their allowances, so they put it into bank accounts.

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  • The teenager's wealthy parents gave him an abundance of cash each week, so he had no reason to not squander his allowance on video games.

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