Words similar to squandered

Example sentences for: squandered

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

The conquest of the New World brought Spain fame and immense wealth, especially under Charles I and Philip II, but much was squandered and wasted; slowly the decline set in.
Howard Hughes sped around the world by plane, and Ted Turner has squandered plenty of his millions on America's Cup yachts.
"Seldom has a politician so frivolously squandered the goodwill that originally brought him victory against the tainted Government of Benazir Bhutto.
Perhaps the most astonishing of the items on which the Empress Dowager Cixi squandered the naval budget is a double-decker Marble Boat beached at the edge of the lake.
Yet, as a Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American, I am made to feel about not doing business in China they way Ken Griffey Jr. might have felt if he had never gone into baseball: like someone who squandered an inheritance, who failed to capitalize on a rare alignment of circumstance and skill.