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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    the Germans couldn't be so stupid as to squander the huge potential labour force represented by the Jews.  (source)
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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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    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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    the brain squanders its few precious memories and, puzzled, dies.  (source)
    squanders = wastes
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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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    her brother had squandered everything.  (source)
    squandered = wasted
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    This is not an opportunity you want to squander.  (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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    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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