Waste in a sentence as a noun

That it means the LHC was a waste of taxpayer money.

All of this arm-chair quarterbacking is a waste of time.

Just a simple 'sorry'....Turned out to be a huge waste of time, energy, and money.

* Calling 911 to report a body is a freaking waste of time and could cost others' buried their lives.

To be honest, if we were focused on raw req/s we would fix some of the code paths that waste a ton of cpu cycles.

The "market" won't correct anything, because no one will touch the BofA toxic waste dump with a 10 foot pole.

Waste in a sentence as a verb

"Trying to say something that actually gets to the merit of the bill is a waste of time on a Sunday morning talk show... it's just too complicated an issue.

Here is some more general advice: assume acquisitions are not going to happen, and that this whole conversation is probably a waste of time for you.

Unfortunately, fixed elements on the sides are soooo MySpace and have fallen out fashion, and many sites waste most of the space on the sides.

Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government.

That's not sufficient justification for forcing other developers to waste tremendous amounts of effort to re-work what was already working for them.

It was a little bit challenging, but then I wouldn't have to waste the time of writing it out, and I wasn't handicapped like all of those suckers who had to go through the motions no matter how simple the problem was.

Waste in a sentence as an adjective

She can come before the judge in 30 days with the document and collect her passport or she'll be deported to countryX".I had to unnecessarily waste time and money hiring a lawyer to figure out what the heck went wrong.

~Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled.

They can pursue their "passions" all they like but, in the end, they stand a considerable risk of being spendthrifts, worthless heirs, or whatever other pejorative term captures what it means to waste one's life away in the name of pursuing passions without focus or purpose.

Source of my problems: design issues 5% architecture constraints 5% language shortcomings 1% mental blocks 5% personal time management 4% personal energy 5% communication with others 75% I waste more time just trying to figure out what others are trying to say, sometimes in person and by voice, but mostly in writing.

Waste definitions

noun

any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"

noun

useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"

See also: wastefulness dissipation

noun

the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"

See also: thriftlessness wastefulness

noun

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

See also: barren wasteland

noun

(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

verb

spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

See also: blow squander

verb

use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"

verb

get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"

verb

run off as waste; "The water wastes back into the ocean"

verb

get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"

See also: neutralize neutralise liquidate

verb

spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

See also: consume squander ware

verb

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

See also: languish

verb

cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"

See also: emaciate macerate

verb

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

See also: devastate desolate ravage scourge

verb

become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

adjective

located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"

See also: godforsaken wild