Use "squandered" in a sentence

1. It’s all about squandered time; not seizing the moment; not recognising the preciousness of a passing minute

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2. A society in moral and spiritual decline seldom fulfills its constructive designs although it often provokes cries in the wilderness among remarkable men and women not quite ready to surrender what remaining capital that society has squandered

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3. Projected over an average lifespan of eighty (80) years, the former has (potentially) squandered 6½ years of his or her life in bed

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4. The Republican Establishment, hampered over the years by its high-brow demeanor and perceived indifference to common causes, has squandered an exceptional opportunity to set the political tone over the coming generation; assisted in large measure by the (self) destructive tendencies of Democrats who continue steering further away from popular mainstream opinion(s)

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5. Bush‘ presidency (mercifully) winds down, I am reminded of the wasted opportunities squandered by this Administration over the years including Social Security and Healthcare reform and advancing a Comprehensive Energy Program design to reduce our nation‘s (habitual) dependency on foreign oil

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6. She was a busy housewife with a preschooler to care for, yet she took it upon herself to see to it that the money wasn’t squandered

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7. million had shown indications of “bid rigging” and that $7 million was squandered through overpayment

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8. Motivation is usually squandered by us relinquishing our power and responsibility in the hands of someone else

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9. happened to a good nation if it squandered its power and influence?

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10. be in double digits, and that your company value will be squandered

11. 12 And Jesus spoke to them also another parable: A man had two sons and the younger son said to him My father give me my portion that belongs to me of your goods; And he divided between them his property; And after a few days the younger son gathered everything that belonged to him and went into a far country and there squandered his property by living prodigally; And when he had exhausted everything he had there occurred a great dearth in that country; And when he was in want he went and joined himself to one of the people of a city of that country; and that man sent him into the field to feed the pigs; And he used to long to fill his belly with the carob that those pigs were eating and no man gave him; And when he returned to himself he said How many hired servants now in my father's house have bread enough and to spare while I here perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father's house and say to him My father I have sinned in heaven and before you and am not worthy now to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants; And he arose and came to his father; But his father saw him while he was at a distance and was moved with compassion for him and ran and fell on his breast and kissed him; And his son said to him My father I have sinned in heaven and before you and am not worthy to be called your son

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12. He said to him Your brother has arrived; and your father has killed a fatted ox since he has received him safe and sound; And he was angry and would not enter; so his father went out and begged him to enter; And he said to his father How many years do I serve you in bondage and I never transgressed a commandment of your; and you have never given me a kid that I might make merry with my friendse but this your son when he had squandered your 32 property with harlots and come you have killed for him a fatted ox

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13. 34 And he spoke a parable to his disciples; Therewas a rich man and he had a steward; and he was accused to him that he had squandered his property

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14. Meanwhile God responds with such an overwhelming display of unconditional love that seeks the highest good to the disobedient prodigal son who disowned his father, and squandered his inheritance on foolish living

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15. It was excess capital, to be squandered at will

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16. Father had squandered a good education

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17. And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living

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18. The rest I just squandered

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19. But there isn’t, and when it’s too late to do anything except continue along the path laid down in heedless youth, all that remains is the sour remembrance of squandered opportunities

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20. I have remained here to care for you all these years, and you never made rejoicing over my faithful service, but when this your son returns, having squandered your substance with harlots, you make haste to kill the fatted calf and make merry over him

21. This steward had not only oppressed his master's clients for his own selfish gain, but he had also directly wasted and squandered his master's funds

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22. those squandered years of longing for the impossible were finally

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23. the ability nor inclination to work towards wealth, squandered

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24. will not see them squandered

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25. Her severity made the house a redoubt of old customs in a town convulsed by the vulgarity with which the outsiders squandered their easy fortunes

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26. At that time she had dug deep into her heart, searching for the strength that would allow her to survive the misfortune, and she had discovered a reflective and just rage with which she had sworn to restore the fortune squandered by her lover and then wiped out by the deluge

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27. In return, this discouraging prospect had made the populations of the Middle East both worried and furious, as they realized a bit late the extent to which the riches from oil extraction had been squandered or even squarely robbed by their elites, monarchs and various leaders

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28. The stranger’s letter, which no one read, was left to the mercy of the moths on the shelf where Fernanda had forgotten her wedding ring on occasion and there it remained, consuming itself in the inner fire of its bad news as the solitary lovers sailed against the tide of those days of the last stages, those impenitent and ill-fated times which were squandered on the useless effort of making them drift toward the desert of disenchantment and oblivion

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29. Nevertheless, that amount was no small change at the time, and students in the program made sure that their hard-earned cash wasn’t squandered

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30. like if they hadn't squandered their money on stupid things

31. Mitchell considered this in logical terms, but felt hopeless in the precious time he squandered

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32. He got another streamer, but in the process he squandered his precious altitude

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33. But, eventually the plundered treasures were squandered, and the welfare of the rich and lazy

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34. your property to make sure that it is not squandered before my heir has a chance to

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35. him and squandered his inheritance, causing him to seek retribution

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36. She’d squandered the rest on extrava-

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37. If you do – then you can leave this life knowing that you have not squandered and wasted your one and only chance to do something very meaningful for the Lord in this one earthly lifetime

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38. The son squandered his inheritence on

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39. I have not squandered millions of dollars in income and

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40. " When a people's major concern is not the loss of life and collateral damage done in their name, but the squandered revenue wasted on behalf of an unwinnable war rather than spent on homeland budget and 1066

41. hedgehog she had squandered and mixed it with the nettle, their sharp flavors taking her mind off the distance she still had to cover this afternoon

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42. This was money that he really could not afford to have squandered

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43. He had squandered a lot of

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44. duly distinguished in this manner, and thus, ultimately, time too is squandered

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45. She’d squandered the rest on extravagant cruise vacations where she spent just about everything betting on number twelve

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46. For two years I was able to send them money which we squandered carelessly in expensive holidays and travel until the downturn arrived

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47. He squandered my dowry

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48. Infuriated that his father had squandered all of the wealth the he was supposed to have after his father died: he simply switched his hatred of his own holy father; to the unholy savages that were blocking him, and all other American Colonists from becoming instantly wealthy again

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49. I have spent every penny of my own money, and squandered

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50. Her father had squandered the family fortune and he got the great idea that he could make some money with his oldest daughter

51. Emma had a number in her cupboard that she squandered one after the other, without Charles allowing himself the slightest observation

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52. Why, oh why, had my good mother died and how is it I could live and flourish without her? How could my family, once so close and strong, have fallen apart so swiftly and soundly in the wake of her death? What had I done when I’d squandered my marriage with Paul—the solid, sweet husband who’d loved me so steadfastly? Why had I gotten myself in a sad tangle with heroin and Joe and sex with men I hardly knew?

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53. All that money for tombstones! Why, they were fools! She felt as indignant as if her own money had been squandered

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54. This left behind the curious companions of solitary clerks and traveling salesmen along with the occasional former dowager who, having exhausted or squandered the money from selling the family silver, was waiting out genteel poverty in one rented room with a three-bar electric fire

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55. All that were left would soon be squandered to a ruffian who told her convenient lies and trapped her still further

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56. My guess is that I had developed the rather juvenile view that the previous musical generation had squandered their inheritance and I started to believe we had been sent to sweep it all away

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57. I made a little money, squandered some of it, paid for my sins and indulgences, and put a lot of it back into waving a flag for whatever song I was singing

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58. He would have remembered his father's need, and would not have squandered what fortune gave

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59. I might change my mind because they have cratered but even my contrarian tendencies can’t be kicked into action by companies that, at best, squandered the opportunities of one of the biggest, longest commodity bull markets ever

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60. If, for example, you have a network that uses WAN links that are slower and more expensive than the LANs, you can use an analyzer to capture the traffic passing over the links to make sure that their bandwidth is not being squandered on unnecessary communications

61. Dante is free to play ball again; after my squandered decade, I have a career; and Shales’s script is going to get made

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62. But he squandered everything she did to make him happy

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63. Good setups take time to develop and shouldn’t be squandered

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64. And if you won't, I'll tell them that you are my uncle, who has squandered all his property, so that the old gentleman won't think that I am his wife's lover

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65. “I should have called it sensible and moral on your part not to have squandered it all,” chuckled Nikolay Parfenovitch, “for after all what does it amount to?”

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66. On the prosecutor's asking her emphatically whether the money he said he had stolen from Katerina Ivanovna was what he had spent yesterday, or what he had squandered here a month ago, she declared that he meant the money spent a month ago, and that that was how she understood him

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67. Just think what he squandered on those gypsy girls alone! And as for our lousy peasants, it wasn't a case of flinging half a rouble in the street, he made them presents of twenty-five roubles each, at least, he didn't give them less

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68. Take it, if you have so little honor as to take it!’ I wanted to prove what he was, and what happened? He took it, he took it, and squandered it with that creature in one night

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69. There, again, he squandered the money he had stolen after the murder of his father

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70. He looked at her, saw clearly what was in her mind (he's admitted here before you that he understood it all), appropriated that three thousand unconditionally, and squandered it in two days with the new object of his affections

71. While I have that money on me, he said, I am a scoundrel, not a thief, for I can always go to my insulted betrothed, and, laying down half the sum I have fraudulently appropriated, I can always say to her, ‘You see, I've squandered half your money, and shown I am a weak and immoral man, and, if you like, a scoundrel’ (I use the prisoner's own expressions), ‘but though I am a scoundrel, I am not a thief, for if I had been a thief, I shouldn't have brought you back this half of the money, but should have taken it as I did the other half!’ A marvelous explanation! This frantic, but weak man, who could not resist the temptation of accepting the three thousand roubles at the price of such disgrace, this very man suddenly develops the most stoical firmness, and carries about a thousand roubles without daring to touch it

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72. “At the first temptation—for instance, to entertain the woman with whom he had already squandered half the money—he would have unpicked his little bag and have taken out some hundred roubles, for why should he have taken back precisely half the money, that is, fifteen hundred roubles? why not fourteen hundred? He could just as well have said then that he was not a thief, because he brought back fourteen hundred roubles

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73. Today I have squandered fifteen thousand roubles at that accursed roulette of yours, and though, five years ago, I promised the people of a certain suburb of Moscow to build them a stone church in place of a wooden one, I have been fooling away my money here! However, I am going back now to build my church

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74. At the same time, knowing that, in addition, your frivolous stepfather has squandered money which is exclusively yours, I have decided to absolve him from a certain moiety of the mortgages on his property, in order that you may be in a position to recover of him what you have lost, by suing him in legal fashion

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75. de Cominges, as well as to cut him out of her will if he should disobey her; also that, because he had disobeyed her, she had squandered all her money at roulette, in order to have nothing more to leave to him

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76. Keller, why does your article impute things to my father without the slightest foundation? He never squandered the funds of his company nor ill-treated his subordinates, I am absolutely certain of it; I cannot imagine how you could bring yourself to write such a calumny! But your assertions concerning Pavlicheff are absolutely intolerable! You do not scruple to make a libertine of that noble man; you call him a sensualist as coolly as if you were speaking the truth, and yet it would not be possible to find a chaster man

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77. On the table lay a note, in his handwriting, to the effect that no one was to blame for his death, that he had killed himself because he had "squandered" four hundred roubles

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78. The word "squandered" was used in the letter; in the four lines of his letter there were three mistakes in spelling

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79. And what is it after all to you but a story? Well, when I got to the climax of torturing my wife, when I'd squandered everything I had or could get, and become utterly rotten, then, there appeared a protector

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80. "Where could one get land nowadays? The masters' children have squandered theirs

81. He has squandered all his property and hers too

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82. But now you've squandered everything, and carry her off by stealth! It's a shame, sir, a shame!

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83. When I had tired out my wife and had squandered everything I could lay my hands on, and had become unbearable, a protector turned up for her

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84. Moreover, his experience of life must have been considerable, for already he had squandered much love, friendship, activity, and money

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85. Within a few months his entire inheritance was squandered

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