fritter away

VERB
  1. spend frivolously and unwisely
    Fritter away one's inheritance
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How To Use fritter away In A Sentence

  • As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
  • He didn't want to allow what might be his only chance to be with her fritter away like paper blown by the wind.
  • He was unaware of her gaze, and she watched him intently, speculating fancifully about the strange warp of soul that led him, a young man with signal powers, to fritter away his time on the writing of stories and poems foredoomed to mediocrity and failure. Chapter 20
  • It's easy to fritter away a fortune if you're not careful.
  • Fritter away one's inheritance
  • Meanwhile, the labels fritter away their time and energy filing 26,000 lawsuits against their customers, and have financially ruined Jammie Thomas, an American-Indian single mother of two who the labels (the RIAA) sued and won a judgment of $220,000 for copyright infringement, which is effectively 10 times her annual after-tax salary. Ron Galloway: A Tale of Two Moms & the Music Industry
  • The game has always been controlled by wealthy people, often successful local businessmen who fritter away their fortunes on the vain hope of glory for their team.
  • Otherwise you simply free up time at work that you will then fritter away pointlessly.
  • Tempting as it would be to fritter away weeks living in the style of a decadent dandy from the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald, I thought it fitting to throw myself into university life here.
  • We've seem them fritter away hours of valuable time asking and answering trivial questions that could easily have been settled by a phone call or two.
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