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Example sentences for: squandered

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After the election, Clinton squandered this victory by continuing to deny that he had lied about the affair.
In addition to being scandal-ridden, the European Commission has squandered its policy-making powers to the point of irrelevance.
The potential of Prince Edward Island’s fertile soil was squandered by absentee land speculators who milked it only for the rent and left the settlers no motivation to develop it.
"It is we who have squandered the public trust, we who have time and again placed our personal or partisan interest before the national interest, earning the public's contempt with our poll-driven policies, our phony posturing, the lies we call spin.
Maenius with great spirit squandered all The inheritance he had from his father and mother, And so became an extra man and sponger, A parasite with no fixed place of his own, Who when he needed a dinner would gladly dine out On vicious scandal he spread with impartial justice About both friend and foe.