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Example sentences for "waste"

Lexicographically close words:
wassailing; wassel; wasshe; wast; wastage; wastebasket; wasted; wasteful; wastefully; wastefulness
  1. My dear fellow, don't waste all your poetry on the cow.

  2. It is waste of stamps, waste of energy, and waste of time to write when you have nothing special to say.

  3. Hitherto, not a tree had relieved the monotony of the waste and dreary path, which indeed was rather a mule track than a road.

  4. It seemed to flow from some-- "Waste land where no man comes, Or hath come, since the making of the world.

  5. Across this hellish waste I went cautiously by reason of torn and twisted tangles of German barbed wire, of hand grenades and huge shells, of broken and rusty iron and steel that once were deadly machine guns.

  6. A storm was brewing, which threatened to lay waste the whole of the fair land of Italy.

  7. But I have been sorely troubled since I learnt that your highness was marching to lay waste the city, and determined, at whatever risk, to make an effort to save it.

  8. Waste not a moment of it, madame," he replied.

  9. Waste not your pity on me," replied Bayard, sternly.

  10. Meantime, Bonnivet, seizing upon Monza, began to lay waste the country, destroyed the mills, and cut off the canals that supplied Milan with water.

  11. I have no artillery," replied Bourbon, "and I do not wish to waste time in a siege.

  12. A waste of shrubbery and small trees, such as overruns the borders of the meadows for miles together, looks much more rugged, wild, and savage in its present brown color than when clad in green.

  13. Any lengthy discussion on rules which do not conform with this opinion is, therefore, a waste of time and energy, and the hull rules just described have been noticed principally on account of their historical interest.

  14. She had less waste surface for friction and skin resistance in proportion to her size than many a yacht of a much smaller tonnage.

  15. He was too strong and sane a man to waste time in fighting shadows or in nourishing himself with hopes.

  16. The British generals had their prey so surely, as they believed, that they mercifully decided not to waste life unnecessarily by storming the works in the first glow of success.

  17. We can imagine, therefore, his profound sense of relief when he found that Howe and his army were really south of Philadelphia, after a waste of many precious weeks.

  18. But why is it worse for a young man to waste parts of three years of his student life than to waste parts of four years of it?

  19. Intercollegiate contests appear to be ruled out chiefly on the ground that, in a three-year course, students cannot afford to waste time.

  20. As much latent affection goes to waste in every flock of crows that flies overhead as would fit a human household for heaven.

  21. The duke affected to disbelieve her story; and Angelo said that grief for her brother's death, who had suffered by the due course of the law, had disordered her senses.

  22. He leaned over to shake hands with our hero.

  23. Bob, you open some of the ginger-ale, but don't let it pop too loud, or Doc.

  24. Government winked at those emigrations, and every year brought fresh strength to Carolina, insomuch that the lands in Ireland were in danger of lying waste for want of labourers, and the manufacturers of dwindling into nothing.

  25. Having abundance of waste land, they can extend their culture in proportion to their capital.

  26. The Indians at that time having much waste land, that was useless to themselves, parted with a share of it to their friends, and were glad that white people had settled among them to supply their wants.

  27. The place has become a desolate waste overrun with weeds and grass.

  28. As far as the eye can reach, nothing is seen but a chaotic waste patched here and there with weeds and rank grass.

  29. He went to another window, and looked across the waste critically.

  30. They were alone; unseen, unheard save of that Ear that listens in the waste places of the world.

  31. And I never waste time over the impossible.

  32. The same old errors meet us in new forms, the old problems are yet unsolved, the waste is so vast that we sometimes feel thankful that we cannot do as much as we would, and that Nature protects children from our worst mistakes.

  33. Nature can waste a thousand acorns to raise one oak, hundreds of children may be sacrificed that a truth may be seen.

  34. Here there are to be seen many uneven waste spaces; it is a region of sand where stunted trees and dwarfish evergreen oaks shelter themselves behind the dunes.

  35. Waste Handel and Shakespeare have left us the best that any have left us; yet, in spite of this, how much of their lives was wasted.

  36. It is through the waste of wit that wit endures, like money, its main preciousness lies in its rarity--the more plentiful it is the cheaper does it become.

  37. Argument Argument is generally waste of time and trouble.

  38. He may guess what he likes, but people don't waste time in listening to black fellows' stories.

  39. Coorg, it would seem to be a waste of money to supply more than a very moderate amount to the coffee directly under the shade trees, for he found that a considerable increase in the quantity of manure gave no increase in the crop.

  40. It is very advisable to take up waste paddy fields, i.

  41. An amendment on the waste land rules for planting trees for timber and fuel was then considered and agreed to.

  42. Nor need I waste time in proving that people in towns, whether in India, or any other part of the world, may readily do things which could never escape the prying eyes of a country society.

  43. Better let them waste time in endeavors to extract an answer than lose none in galloping over to investigate a fire," he reasoned, and then turned to where his young orderly stood, again silently holding the reins of the horses.

  44. No fireman would waste so many valuable seconds.

  45. Well, he needn't waste time pleading with Stark.

  46. Vain in description to waste precious paper-- Suffice it, Europe was one cloud of vapour!

  47. A naked subject to the weeping clouds, And waste for churlish Winter's tyranny.

  48. But I waste words; you require some better assurance of my good faith than a mere promise, and I offer you here my son.

  49. But with these exceptions, all is waste and bare, possessing alone that portion of the sublime which is derived from extent and desolation.

  50. They are the landmarks in the waste of years, that guide our memory back to every thing that is pleasing in the past.

  51. Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.

  52. My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers, a long neglected and yet weedless garden.

  53. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.

  54. I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack.

  55. I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time, and started out in the early morning towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium.

  56. With him nothing went to waste that was good to eat, and at the present moment if the old bull caribou had deliberately walked within his reach Thor in all probability would not have killed him.

  57. He had become an expert at what he called "wild-bread" baking, and his method possessed the double efficiency of saving both waste and time.

  58. In the valleys the berries were gone; grass and roots alone were no longer nourishing enough for their bodies; they could no longer waste time in seeking ants and grubs; the fish were in deep water.

  59. And after that we need little wonder at the assassinations, poisonings, and forging of wills, which then laid waste the domestic life of the Romans.

  60. All between was one wide waste of wood and rock, save here and there a watch-tower perched on the margin, and whitened half-way up with the foam of the yet uncalmed sea.

  61. I know what you would say, Mr. Prince; but it is needless to waste words; my resolution is formed, and I am going to save our charter or perish in the attempt.

  62. The members were thereupon solemnly to hand me back the copies of my statement as so much waste paper, and I was to be suffered to slink away with what countenance I could maintain in such disgrace.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waste" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; ablation; absorption; afterglow; arid; assimilation; atrophy; attack; attenuate; attrition; back; backwoods; balance; barren; barrens; bate; blast; blow; bones; breakup; brush; bump; burn; bush; butt; carnage; cease; celibate; chaff; childless; condemn; confound; consume; consumption; corrode; corrosion; croak; crumble; damn; damnation; debris; decimate; decline; decrease; decrement; dejection; dematerialize; depart; deplete; depletion; depreciate; depreciation; depredation; desecrate; desert; desolate; desolation; despoil; destroy; detritus; devastate; devastation; devour; die; digestion; diminish; dirt; disappear; discharge; dishwater; disintegration; disorganization; dispatch; dispel; disperse; disruption; dissipate; dissipation; dissolution; dissolve; dive; drain; drained; dregs; droop; drop; dry; dust; dwindle; ebb; effluent; ejection; emaciate; empty; end; erase; erode; erosion; evaporate; evaporation; excrement; execute; exhaust; exhausted; exhaustion; exit; expend; expenditure; exterminate; extravagance; fade; fail; fall; fallow; filings; finish; finishing; fix; flag; flee; fleet; fly; fossil; fritter; fruitless; garbage; gash; gaunt; gelded; get; gobble; gut; havoc; heath; hide; hit; holocaust; husk; ice; idle; impotent; incontinence; ineffectual; infertile; ingestion; intemperance; jejune; junk; kill; languish; lavish; lavishness; leached; leakage; leavings; lees; leftover; lessen; lifeless; litter; loaf; lose; loss; macerate; melt; muck; murder; off; offal; parch; paring; pass; peak; pelf; perdition; perish; pillage; pine; plummet; plunge; prodigality; profligacy; profusion; rag; raid; rasping; ravage; refuse; relics; remains; remnant; remove; residue; rest; riffraff; rinsing; roach; rubbish; ruin; ruination; rump; sack; sag; sawdust; scourge; scouring; scrap; scum; sear; settle; shadow; shambles; shard; shaving; shipwreck; shrink; shrinkage; shrivel; sink; slack; slag; slaughter; slop; slops; spend; spill; spoil; spoliation; squander; sterile; straw; strip; stubble; stump; subside; survival; sweeping; sweepings; swill; sylvan; tare; thin; throw; trace; trash; uncultivated; undoing; unfruitful; unplowed; unproductive; untilled; upheave; vandalism; vanish; vaporize; vestige; virgin; wane; waste; wasted; wasteland; weaken; wear; weazen; weed; wild; wilderness; wilt; wither; withering; wizen; woodland; wrack; wreck


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    waste away; waste land; waste lands; waste matter; waste paper; waste places; waste products; waste time