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Example sentences for "wastes"

Lexicographically close words:
wasteland; wasten; wastepaper; waster; wasters; wasteth; wastewater; wastfull; wasting; wastrel
  1. A relic to the present cast; Left on the ever-changing strand Of shifting and unstable sand, Which wastes beneath the steady chime And beating of the waves of Time!

  2. Prison'd amid the fastnesses of ice, With hunger howling o'er the wastes of snow!

  3. Should the vast circuit of the world contain Such wastes of ocean, and such scanty land?

  4. Sidenote: In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire--and have a strange adventure.

  5. He is often seized with permanent dyspepsia, and either wastes away by degrees, or dies suddenly of a fit of cramp in the stomach.

  6. So to the woods and wastes I'll go, And I will build an ozier bower; And sweetly there to me shall flow The meditative hour.

  7. For example, in cutting four boards of one-inch lumber, an ordinary circular saw wastes enough material to make a fifth board, because it cuts an opening that is one-quarter of an inch in width.

  8. The furniture industry not infrequently wastes from 40 to 60 per cent.

  9. He wastes large parts of the trunk in cutting.

  10. It is so wide in bite, however, that it wastes much wood in sawdust.

  11. Instead, they left barren stretches and desolate wastes where dense woods once stood.

  12. Does Nature make up for the hot aridity of the desert and the barren wastes of sand and more sand, by brilliance of flower and wealth of fantastic design?

  13. He brings before you the wild wastes and the dark woods of his native land, and its brave, simple, enduring people.

  14. On level rocks the juniper dies standing and wastes insensibly out of existence like granite, the wind exerting about as little control over it, alive or dead, as is does over a glacier boulder.

  15. Ah, that rest which only the exhausted wanderer through the burning wastes of speculation can truly comprehend and appreciate.

  16. Perhaps he had dragged the two English policemen to the wastes of a nocturnal heath on an errand no saner than seeking figs on its thistles.

  17. It rose abruptly out of the ashen wastes of forest in a sort of hump or shoulder of green turf that looked grey in the starlight.

  18. He found it a serious drawback to the dry-earth system that it was incapable of taking care of the liquid wastes of the house.

  19. Nothing is more common than the expression of the opinion that the wastes of a population are offensive and dangerous in proportion to the degree to which excrementitious matter is allowed to flow away with its general drainage.

  20. As has been stated above, the liquid household wastes are of much more serious consequence from a sanitary point of view, as compared with excrementitious matters, than the public has been wont to suppose.

  21. Where waste matters are to be removed from cellars and basements below the level of the ground, a greater fall is necessary, or the wastes which are there collected must be thrown to the tank by pumping or otherwise.

  22. Conservation of cash and credit is important to the farmer as it saves or wastes results of his work, and his work furnishes the greater part of the Nation's wealth.

  23. It matters not whether this person is a part of a trust, or lives alone a hundred miles beyond the frontier, or is the owner of a prosperous farm--if he wastes the heritage of the race, he is an offender.

  24. A youth of follies, an old age of cares, Young yet enervate, old yet never wise; Vice wastes their vigor and their mind impairs.

  25. It's a long way, and wastes a lot of men to hold it.

  26. The greenhorn wastes ammunition, eats food, and is no manner of good.

  27. His ship was the camel which became the courser of the African wastes and by means of which he could connect the Nile bends more swiftly than we can do to-day with steamers.

  28. There we float through flat wastes of reeds, and water plants and floating rafts of vegetable matter in every stage of growth and decay.

  29. Perhaps a gazelle dashes away in fright to the nearest sand hills, or it may be you catch a glimpse of a naked Arab youth tending his flock of goats, for even desert wastes are not utterly void of plant and animal life.

  30. The setting sun seemed to mock us in its beauty, to laugh and say: "See, I rejoice in the wild wastes of eternal sands.

  31. At that early period, France left her footsteps upon the dreary wastes which even now have no other tenants than the Indian buffalo-hunter or the roving trapper.

  32. At a later period, the task of colonization would have been abandoned, but for the hope of casting the pure light of the faith over the gloomy wastes of heathendom.

  33. He might, indeed, have found a partial refuge in the remoter wilderness of the upper lakes; but those dreary wastes would have doomed him to a life of unambitious exile.

  34. The wastes and solitudes of nature are his congenial home.

  35. We turn to a region of which, as yet, we have caught but transient glimpses; a region which to our forefathers seemed remote and strange, as to us the mountain strongholds of the Apaches, or the wastes of farthest Oregon.

  36. Army met army under the shadows of primeval woods; their cannon resounded over wastes unknown to civilized man.

  37. Here, where winds sweep from any direction across great wastes of moor, or from the sea, health and quiet are to be found more easily than in any popular holiday resort or fashionable spa.

  38. Most of the Devon legends cluster around the grim wastes of Dartmoor, and, like that wonderful stretch of country, are wild and awe-inspiring.

  39. There, amidst wooded plains, and tangled copses of bough and underwood, he reigns as much the monarch as the lion is of the sandy wastes of Africa.

  40. These continents are intersected by vast tracts of burning sand, the seats of desolation and drought; but by means of the camel, the most dreary wastes are traversed.

  41. Amongst the first two classes we usually find the majority of the commoners on the wastes or commons of the manor.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wastes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.