Example sentences for: squander

How can you use “squander” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Working from a trim novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor don't squander their resources on crowds or parades or elaborate spoofs of ceremony, the way most political satires tend to do.

  • It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities," he said.

  • To "squander" the money, in Clinton's language, is to "spend" it on tax cuts.

  • However, I'd like to squander my space here with something I find far more riveting, and infinitely more disturbing: I'm referring, of course, to the announcement today that American Media Inc.--the company that owns the National Enquirer , the Weekly World News , and the Star --is buying the publisher of the Globe , the Sun and the National Examiner for $105 million.

  • The fiscal consensus is that politicians of both parties have once again managed to take credit for a windfall not of their making (since the economy is generating enough revenue to balance the budget without any deal) and squander the windfall on politically calculated handouts.


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