squandered

How To Use squandered In A Sentence

• He's squandered all his savings on drink.
• The home team squandered a number of chances in the first half.
• Compared with the billions squandered on a vague mission in Iraq, a mission to Mars seems cheap.
• The son of a white woman from Kansas and a black goat herder-turned-academic from Kenya, Obama delivered an unsentimental account of squandered opportunities in postcolonial Africa.
• The Bulgaria striker squandered two glorious chances either side of the interval and those misses summed up a miserable season. Times, Sunday Times
• But as the game's tempo reached fever pitch, Saunders squandered a golden opportunity to grab an equaliser.
• Her efforts are wasted on this film while the principal actor is similarly squandered as the bewhiskered wizard who follows them through time and tries to restore them to their rightful place in the world.
• It took four hours and three minutes, by which time he had squandered eight match points. Times, Sunday Times
• Don't go down in history as a spendthrift, who threw away the country's wealth and squandered the opportunity to truly develop our nation.
• After 8 long years I found that he'd squandered all my hard-earned savings from the previous 8 years, put me in enormous debt and had given me the biggest dose of clap in the history of the world. Martin Lewis: "Bankrupt & Clap-Ridden": The Ultimate 'Dear Abbey' Letter From Jack-Ass America