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

"We must decide whether to invest the surplus, to strengthen America over the long-term, or to squander it for the short-term," he argued Thursday.
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.
To "squander" the money, in Clinton's language, is to "spend" it on tax cuts.
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.
The really interesting question is why the Cato Institute and other free-market conservatives should be willing to squander their intellectual credibility by associating their names with this sort of thing.