How To Use Wasted In A Sentence

Companies need to be able to handle surges, otherwise the cost of generating leads is wasted and prospective customers who cannot get through may get such a bad impression of the company that they do not bother calling back.
She wasted a great part of the royal treasury for her benefactions!
This is mostly true for fans, friends, and family of unsung folk hero Tim Hardin, the prolific songster who wasted his life living wasted.
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
The Argentine ace scored his 150th goal for the club but wasted a series of chances to put the game to bed. The Sun

Bibi's here to raise funds period and why Obama wasted time on him again send a strong signal that AIPAC still runs this issue. Emanuel: Settlement issue should not block Mideast peace
This is not a dishy, tell-all tale of wasted days and wasted nights.
I'd heard of the building, and sighed when I saw the pictures, but you really have to see it to see what a wasted opportunity it is.
Wondering how the wasted Stevenson could work so tirelessly, La Farge decided he must be an aitu, a Samoan devil spirit not bound by the laws of the flesh. The Five of Hearts
There were some amazing works there, although I'm sure they were completely wasted on my philistine eyes.
The irony was wasted on the Americans as they swarmed down the crumbling alleys.
If a cook does not get a discerning customer, all his efforts and culinary skills would be wasted.
That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing, it was incredible.
And bitterness is just such a wasted time and emotion. Valerie Plame Wilson Fights Scandal With 'Fair Game'
He drank, womanized and wasted money.
We are condemned to another wasted year of paralysed dithering. The Sun
A writing teacher of mine used the term furniture moving to refer to wasted prose.
Instead of looking at this issue for what it is, we get a petty post about $2-$3 million in "wasted" money. Sound Politics: Your tax dollars at work
The toro, for me, was wasted a little on the grill, but all sorts of vegetable things did well. Times, Sunday Times
“His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
So millions more get wasted. Times, Sunday Times
His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since Count Robert of Paris
There are no such problems here; from the film's slam-bang opening, to its brilliant closing moments, there's not a wasted shot or scene.
Innkeepers complained of unlet rooms, and caterers of wasted supplies.
He really is one of those guys who is wasted at his current job.
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
Most carbohydrates appear to be wasted through excretion or stored as fat.
The island will not be ground down so much as wasted away. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
They say youth is wasted on the young and experience on the retired.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor
He said that resources were being wasted as a result with different research programmes heading up blind alleys one after each other. Times, Sunday Times
It is such a pity that their time and our taxes are being wasted on something which has the majority of our citizens shrugging their shoulder.
He'd wasted valuable years in failing to come here sooner, and learning this essential fact about himself: that he was no desperado at all. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould.
At least a quarter -- nearly R1-billion -- of claims received could have been wasted by continued fraud and overutilisation of medical aid facilities, the investigation revealed. ANC Daily News Briefing
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.
Bottom trawling (scraping large nets across the seabed) kills coral, stirs up sediment causing pollutants to migrate into seaweed and other fish feed, and scoops up large amounts of by-catch -- other sealife, like turtles and dolphins unintentionally caught and wasted. Cathy Erway: The Pescatore's Dilemma
With the slew of people in there, it's the typically small percentage that ‘see their great night wasted’ through violent excess.
She claimed that money had been wasted and our financial difficulties seemed to prove her point.
a wasted effort
In Britain the estimate is 9 billion kilos of food is wasted after catered meals and all of it is dumped.
Yet, with each animal killed, a sizeable proportion of it is wasted. Times, Sunday Times
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
I am a passionate "nester" and have spent years and a lot of wasted money following the latest "look". Creating a Beautiful Home Without Decorating
The Circotherm system includes a unique, finely balanced, fan which cleverly draws any wasted heat directly back into the oven.
And I wonder whether I wasted what is the best time to make friends.
She spent all her hours in a deep slumber, her hands tied to the bed so that she could not disturb the tubes that connected her wasted body to life.
It would be sad to see all your good work wasted, and the place revert to its former wilderness.
Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Denis Waitley
Once the fruits ripen they can strip a plant in hours, leaving your hard work wasted. The Sun
It was legitimate to argue that if you had made up your mind not to challenge your immurement then you should make sure that the time was not wasted. Chapter 13 - Stage Two
Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Denis Waitley
By now I realised that singing lessons were wasted on the likes of me.
Sure, there are some important achievements, but also many tens of billions have been wasted on absurd military space projects or in imposing requirements on the Shuttle (such as its huge down range) for military manned polar recon missions from Vandenberg only to 15 years later realize an astronaut crossing the Van Allen radiation belts 4 times per LEO orbit (every 90 minutes) was not quite a good idea. Latest NASA Administrator Speculation - NASA Watch
We all need to reflect on the huge amount of wasted potential as disabled people struggle against continual discrimination and barriers. Times, Sunday Times
On Dig Your Own Hole, Beth Orton's looping lament to wasted comedown mornings gradually elided into one of that record's most assertive beats.
Taxes get wasted of a lot of foolish projects, government pork and corporate welfare.
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.
Water wasted by householders is but a gnat's whatsit compared to the huge volumes that are wasted by the water companies - dobbing on your neighbour isn't going to solve anything
This biological process wasted food and, with expanding scientific knowledge of bacteria during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, began to be seen as unhealthful.
And just to rub salt into the wound, I had a luxuriant crop of hair on the top of my head in those wasted years (there is a photo to prove it).
The guy keeps offering me beer, and you know I'm wasted, so I don't know what I'm doing.
Snyder is like wasted potential rotting on the bench.
They build wasted time and effort into the very fabric of the organisation.
I'm sorry you had a wasted journey.
Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
Not only has he wasted ammunition, but he's probably given you a good idea of where he is.
His talents were obviously being wasted as a lawyer.
Out-of-control spending, he says, will be addressed by launching an independent audit of the state budget to pinpoint what is being ‘wasted and mismanaged’.
A dream nobody cares,a Suigetsu mirror flower wasted.
Seacrest wasted no time in dispatching Heather Piccinini and Tiara Purifoy.
One of the problems in the current subsidy system is that large amounts of subsidised products are misused or wasted.
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
I rang them the day before to see if i could have a telephone interview, they refused and said it wouldn't be a wasted journey as there were lots of things happening.
Right now, her gut was telling her any more time focusing on Gordon was wasted. BLINDSIGHTED
And what am I but a poor, wasted, wan-thriven tree, dug up by the roots, and flung out to waste in the highway, that man and beast may tread it under foot? The Heart of Mid-Lothian
If, as the adage goes, education is wasted on the young, it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters.
You cannot improve your past, but you can improve your future. Once time is wasted, life is wasted.
So much wasted effort and misdirected concern. Times, Sunday Times
But the District Judge, sitting at Dewsbury Magistrates Court, told the defendant that his dogged pursuance of the case had wasted a lot of taxpayers' money.
The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity.
And so a pall of defeat, and a sense of wasted lives hangs over Christiane's story, for which her uneasy family reunion cannot quite compensate.
A wasted baby, apparently the youngest child, moaned in a corner of the room.
Much of Keighley's good work was, however, wasted by careless play in the rucks which led to stolen possession by the eager Wheatley Hills forwards.
In the wasted bodies of those who have suffered starvation, the muscles are shrunk and unnaturally soft, and have lost their contractibility; all those parts of the body which were capable of entering into the state of motion have served to protect the remainder of the frame from the destructive influence of the atmosphere. Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Two salvageable moments from an otherwise wasted hour: the budding relationship between Nadia and Weiss is great.
Campanario, famous for its huge Spanish chestnut: both were, however, wasted by the oidium of 1852. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
And 'twas 'ard if they'd be wasted like, and all along o' me. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
A couple of hours chuckling is not time wasted is it? Plug
All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
It is hardly conducive to spontaneity, but could save a wasted trip.
Disregarding etiquette, I hoe in with my fingers to ensure that none of the precious flesh is wasted.
Trends are wasted on me; my style is more retro and totally depends on my mood. Times, Sunday Times
Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
His body was wasted by long illness.
I have learned that the English word 'shorts' translates roughly into Czech as 'wasted luggage space.' Suit-of-meat Diary Entry
Oh, do tell me you've not wasted my father's money by spending all of your days dilly-dallying with poetry, rather than studying!
All in all we must have wasted about fifty gallons of water and never did succeed in getting the blasted thing to run.
She said police time and resources would also be wasted. The Sun
And if you hadn't read at least the first line of Virgil's Aeneid, you'd clearly wasted your youth. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
In addition to lost space, money on these extra peripherals is wasted.
The 31-year-old Sydney Olympic gold medallist wasted little time in the ring and won the one-sided contest in two minutes and nine seconds for his eighth professional win.
Whether those lives were wasted, or whether their brave example was not worth more to the world than a few years more of continuance, is not the question here to be asked. A Book of Golden Deeds
It will result in inappropriate and wasted research funds, time, and effort, and may influence dangerous interventions.
He wasted his youth in front of a computer screen.
This nasal, crisp, robotic inner voice wasted no time on small talk.
Incidentally, congers are delicious, and "cuddled" or no, I doubt any were wasted. AR Follies Continued: "Conger Cuddling"
Indeed, emaciation hath wasted my frame and my tears a torrent became mountains and plains are straitened upon me for grame and of the excess of my distress, I go saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The white paper was welcomed by anti-nuclear groups including Greenpeace, which claimed the MoD had wasted money "equipping itself to fight the last war rather than the next". National security strategy says UK under threat of cyber attack
Each of you wasted a person who was infinitely more talented than you, and for what?
Tonnes of horticultural produce are wasted every year because of lack of basic transport and storage infrastructure.
I think it's wasted energy to get overexcited about stuff like that because it's only rock 'n' roll.
Did nobody tell them that they are cold-blooded reptiles before they wasted the cost of a helicopter? The Sun
As in the original, the superrealist images beguile us with their bold wit, and the storytelling is so tight, urgent and inventive there doesn't seem to be a wasted moment. Further Proof: Toys
A fox-hound or a kangaroo-dog is always of the same opinion as Mr. Jorrocks: -- "All time is wasted what isn't spent in 'untin'. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
In terms of crime control, prison cells spent on people past the age of forty are mostly wasted.
That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory. Chapter 10
Let me see... there was the barghest, and although it kept creating illusions of itself to fool us, and I wasted a Flame Strike on it, we defeated it eventually. Gloriagoodbody: The passing of another noble companion.
Hence the relative attraction of a centrally-planned, lowest common denominator mediocracy with just enough capitalism to be plundered and wasted on their ever failing social engineering schemes and flawed political theories.
DLB reader Philip turned me on to this old school Atari 2600 game label generator which to be fair, he found over at Mike's and now I've wasted a whole bunch of time screwing around. Archive 2007-08-01
Bierce is always amusing, and the idle moment spent picking through his definitions is never wasted.
I guess that college, like youth, is wasted on the young.
They can also lead to wasted taxpayer dollars when unaccompanied by adequate social services and anti-drug covenants.
It often causes one regret to see symphonies of magnificent colour wasted here in pictures of boating men; and there, in pictures of café corners; and we have arrived at a degree of complex intellectuality which is no longer satisfied with these rudimentary themes. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
He tries farming and weaving and bee-keeping, only to see all his efforts wasted.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor
Having wasted years, they now want to move the goalposts and hope we don't notice. Times, Sunday Times
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world--the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
Usually she was wasted, slurring her words, and my mother would come out and tell her she needed to leave.
The story is largely a wasted opportunity to elicit clarifications of ambiguities and contradictions.
The disafforestation is twice as harmful, as with the trees destruction not only the natural ‘captivators’ of the carbon are wasted, but increases its proportion in the atmosphere.
National Democrats wasted no time in accusing Sarah Palin of abandoning her state after the Alaska governor revealed Friday that she was resigning from office. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, July 8, 2009
All that could be carried off was taken, all that could not was wasted by the fires they kindled, even onto the humblest grain store-house of the poor cottars.
Vpon the forenamed plaine there were wont to be great store of villages: but for the most part they were all wasted, in regarde of the fertile pastures, that the Tartars might feede their cattel there. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
An awful double fault from Li early in the second let the Russian back in but the three-times grand slam champion wasted the advantage when she committed the same error for 4-4.
In front of it, a small furnace is constructed with vents into the Laconicum, and with a stokehole that can be very carefully closed to prevent the flames from escaping and being wasted. The Ten Books on Architecture
When we last heard from them, they were waxing ruefully nostalgic about their chemically wasted youth.
He was a ventripotent Apicius, a real epicure; one who boasted that he never wasted his appetite on a joint.
According to Cot'n Wash, Inc. even 2X concentrated detergents are still 50% water and come in a bottle often not made from recycled plastic. dropps products have no wasted water the company says as the dosage is pre-measured and all ingredients in the packs are "active". 19 posts from November 2007
He, who neither drank nor smoked, who never wasted the weight of his arms in an embrace, nor the touch of his lips a second longer than the most perfunctory of kisses, who was invariably up before cockcrow and asleep ere the kerosene lamp had a tenth emptied itself, and who never thought to die, was dead even more quickly than Brother Hal and Prince Lilolilo. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
But these efforts are wasted if the copy is stale or lacks a congruous theme.
He wasted a golden opportunity when he missed from the penalty spot.
He's another natural goal scorer, but Stalybridge have played him in midfield where I think he is wasted.
The black Labrador wasted no time when his owner spotted lifebelts floating in the middle of Jubilee Lake.
No doubt it's as dried up as that frump who's just wasted twenty minutes of my precious time! NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
The car owner brings out a hosepipe turns on the tap and hundreds of litres of clean water is wasted.
I feel that the comm'l fishery is wasted on the majority of the permit holders (there are approximately 4000 +/-) who are not fisheries income dependent, but are looking to subsidize a very expensive hobby. Should MA Make Striped Bass A Protected Game Fish?
We hear so much talk about cost effectiveness yet every time the management structure changes, resources are wasted on needless things.
The fforest is for II. or III. myles vpon the skirts soe exceedingly wasted, as well by the inhabitants as other the borderers adiacent, that yt is grief to see soe many goodly trees to be spoiled, the vse whereof hath bene such as yt hath converted the tymber trees to Dotards, and that almost generally vpon the borders of the same fforest. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
Except for what he spent on haircuts,books and daily necessities he never wasted a penny.
The guy was wasted last month.
That's a perfectly good wish plumb wasted," said Penfield, refilling both glasses, his features twisted in the wriest of grimaces. The Day of Days An Extravaganza
That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing, it was incredible.
However, this method results in redundancy and wasted resources.
What a rich woman cannot consume, such as the diamond bauble that sits unworn in the back of her jewelry box, is simply wasted, socially speaking.
The workstation and its cubbyholes are meticulously planned with no wasted space.
Bardem's performance is astonishing, not so much in his ability to mimic a wasted body, but by capturing the essence of a lively intelligence.
The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity.
It's only later that you think about the years wasted; if I had to have a youth, I wish now it could have been misspent. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
Lee wasted no time entering Maryland, the men being in high spirits as the bold move was made.
The absence of Hawes was emphasised when Britain wasted five penalty corners in the first 15 minutes.
"A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious," the author finishes up.
The BBC must have been wailing in despair when they realised the wasted potential of their "Neighbours".
The programs are processed as a single unit thus avoiding wasted computer time as each program is loaded. Computers Basic Facts
The story is largely a wasted opportunity to elicit clarifications of ambiguities and contradictions.
But the Munster backroom boys don't believe it was a wasted journey.
So much wasted effort and misdirected concern. Times, Sunday Times
He pulled, the wasted muscles in his arms straining - the boy's renewed determination was all that carried him as he forced himself to his feet.
I just didn't want to seem like a plonker who had just wasted his time carrying a rucksack full of water unnecessarily.
Although an ambulance wasn't sent to all the callers, paramedics still had 73,007 wasted journeys.
The stink is loathsome and high where wasted rubbish gets disposed off uncaringly in an open public place.
We need urgent action at all levels of government and within our major institutions to refocus on education and substantially raise the numbers of those who graduate from high school and college -- to make this a fundamental goal -- and to put the workers whose time and talents are now wasted and atrophying back to work. Gary Orfield: Southern California's Broken Economic Ladder
The referee played on but Crooks instantly clattered Connell to give Cummings a dead-ball chance from 25 yards which he wasted.
She is mostly wasted here, with little to do but putter around and slowly decline.
His eyes blazed in fury but he wasted no more effort in struggling. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
With so many wasted votes, election results are badly distorted.
The day passed without success, I had been turned down by many pros and it all felt like a wasted journey.
His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
The ripe, red, pulpy flesh of the melons stands in with sickening authenticity for the wasted tissue of the bodies of the wounded men.
We have to recognise that not only is bullying ruining people's lives, it is costing the UK economy millions every year in tribunal payments, legal fees and wasted talent
He also inherited a lot from his godfather two years ago but wasted it. The Sun
You certainly wasted studio time and resources, so one was actively discouraged.
I felt my life slowly escape my poor, frail and wasted body and I was miserable.
Part of the problem was that Paramount was worried they were squandering the momentum of the fourth film but an extra six months used to come up with an interesting and satisfying story as opposed to dreck is never wasted. 15 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
A vote for me will not be wasted, but will be a vote for a socialist political platform.
Storage space represents a cost, especially if the kit is bulky, uneconomically packaged with wasted space in the package, or if it requires refrigeration or freezing.
Except for what he spent on haircuts,books and daily necessities he never wasted a penny.
It wasn't that she lacked strength; a more precise description would be that her independent nature had wasted away and shriveled up beneath the careful and diligent ministrations of her father.
It could be said, of course, that the time apparently wasted in these effectless studies could have been well spent in deepening and widening a knowledge of English literature never yet too great, and I have often said this myself; but then, again, I am not sure that the studies were altogether effectless. Literature and Life (Complete)
Now this King was become a very old man, weakened and wasted with age and sickness and decrepitude; for he had lived an hundred and fourscore years and had no child, male or female, by reason whereof he was ever in cark and care from morning to night and from night to morn. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Will they elect another Democratic Senator only to see his term wasted by the dying remnants of Plantation and slave owners? Best of the Blogs
Did nobody tell them that they are cold-blooded reptiles before they wasted the cost of a helicopter? The Sun
How much time have you wasted sitting around waiting for Prince Charming to appear?
But while every other match was called off early in the day, or even on Friday, Peebles were left to count the cost of a wasted journey.
In the northwest of China, long dry periods wasted the land.

How To Use Wasted In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):