squander

in a sentence

This is not an opportunity you want to squander.  (source) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn, 2004

If you didn't squander the money in the pubs I wouldn't have to follow you the way I did in Brooklyn.  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

All of his life he had squandered his choices, wallowing in revenge and self-pity, keeping himself down.  (source) Ben Mikaeslen, Touching Spirit Bear, 2001

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) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

the Germans couldn't be so stupid as to squander the huge potential labour force represented by the Jews.  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

he wanted to continue gambling, he wanted to continue squandering, continue demonstrating his disdain of wealth.  (source) Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, 1951

the brain squanders its few precious memories and, puzzled, dies.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

They clashed together, and then at that point Each one turned backward, rolling retrograde, Crying, "Why keepest?" and, "Why squanderest thou?"†  (source) Dante Alighieri, Dante's Inferno, 1320

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) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

The troops we squander'd first again appear From several quarters, and enclose the rear.†  (source) Virgil, The Aeneid, -19 B.C.

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) Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved, 1981

Imagining how to spend freedom: squander it, invest it, use it like Monopoly money.  (source) Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato, 1978

But these men spend their days around our house killing our beeves, our fat goats and our sheep, carousing, drinking up our good dark wine; sparing nothing, squandering everything.  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.