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waste Examples

EN[weɪst] [-eɪst]
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    Examples of waste in a Sentence

  • Examples of waste
    1. Another avianlike feature is the cloaca, the single orifice through which an echidna or platypus voids waste, has sex and lays eggs, and by which the group gets its name.
    2. Don't waste your time on that chickenshit.
    3. One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air.
    4. The worms accumulate natural estrogen excreted in human waste and estrogenlike compounds from plastics manufacturing.
    5. incinerable waste
    6. Don't waste your time trying to change his mind: he's completely intransigent.
    7. Don't waste your time with that; their operations are nickel and dime.
  • Examples of wastes
    1. noneffluent industrial wastes, fertilizers, pesticides and oil
    2. The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped wastes there.
  • Examples of wasted
    1. The lover at last fell ill; he fairly wasted away; and was so unhappy, that he gave up all his feastings and entertainments.
    2. Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.
    3. For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field…
    4. Doomed to a brief existence, she wasted not the hours in painful repinings at a fate so stern; but still regarding it as inevitable, she prepared as calmly as possible to encounter it.
    5. Chelsea began the second half in more determined fashion and soon after Malouda directed a weak shot at Hennessey, they wasted a glorious chance to get on the scoresheet.
    6. Dave got wasted drunk and wrecked shop, which is why he's not invited tonight.
  • Examples of wasting
    1. His debilitated body, the victim of the wasting disease, could no longer support his weight.
    2. They are wasting their time on non-agenda items.
    3. He stood up, wasting precious seconds and knocking his chair over as he continued to stare upward through the window at the Crown Vic.
    4. The authorities claim they turned from unemployment checks to food stamps to avoid alcoholists wasting their families' allowances in pubs
    5. Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. "Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end," he says, "what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?"
    6. By the end of January, and well past the scheduled Dec. 16 opening date, Mr. Büchel had departed for good and begun accusing the museum of interference, unprofessionalism and wasting his time.
    7. He suffered from a horrible wasting disease and lost 100 pounds in only two weeks.
    8. He's wasting time at university not getting after his degree.
    9. She watched him wasting away from lack of food or exercise.
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