Sample Sentences for
squander
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    If you didn't squander the money in the pubs I wouldn't have to follow you the way I did in Brooklyn.  (source)
    squander = waste
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    We squandered our first nickels on the House of Horrors, which scared us not at all; we entered the black seventh-grade room and were led around by the temporary ghoul in residence and were made to touch several objects alleged to be component parts of a human being.  (source)
    squandered = wasted
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    the brain squanders its few precious memories and, puzzled, dies.  (source)
    squanders = wastes
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    I even squandered a dime of my hard-earned cash to buy the book, which I hid with my other treasures in the underwear drawer.  (source)
    squandered = wasted
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    Imagining how to spend freedom: squander it, invest it, use it like Monopoly money.  (source)
    squander = waste
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    he wanted to continue gambling, he wanted to continue squandering, continue demonstrating his disdain of wealth.  (source)
    squandering = wasting money
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    If they decide that what they want is to toss us into a cage until Sebastian comes for us—well, that pretty much squanders any upper hand this information might give us.†  (source)
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    But with every hour of his life, with the strain and the pride of every moment when his muscles or his mind had ached from effort, with every step he had taken to rise out of the mines of Minnesota and to turn his effort into gold, with all of his profound respect for money and for its meaning, he despised the squanderer who did not know how to deserve the great gift of inherited wealth.†  (source)
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    The troops we squander'd first again appear From several quarters, and enclose the rear.†  (source)
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    He listened to it splash dismally below, bidding a wistful farewell to the squandered buck and a quarter.  (source)
    squandered = wasted
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    the Germans couldn't be so stupid as to squander the huge potential labour force represented by the Jews.  (source)
    squander = waste
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    Profligate squandering was my way of breaking with the panicky, parsimonious ghettos of Flushing.†  (source)
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    Mr. Downes says that Malachy McCourt is gone pure mad with the drink, that he squanders his wages in pubs all over Coventry, that he sings Irish rebel songs which the English don't mind because they're used to the way the Irish carry on about the hundreds of years of suffering, but they won't put up with any man that stands up in a pub and insults the King and Queen of England, their two lovely daughters and the Queen Mother herself.†  (source)
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