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Example sentences for: squandering

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While consumer activists pump for another technological fix--"smart" air bags that can adjust their behavior to the stature of front-seat passengers--more and more of us (perhaps influenced in part by mandatory seat-belt laws in 49 states) are squandering those 2.97 precious seconds and buckling up.
Between 1521 and 1556, he went to war with France four times, squandering the riches of the Americas on endless military campaigns.
2) By devoting the surplus to Social Security, Clinton is keeping congressional Republicans and Democrats from squandering the money on tax cuts and spending, respectively.
are betting that the public will blame the president, not Congress, for squandering the money he has insisted be saved to shore up Social Security.
The Giuliani administration has dispensed more than $2 billion in tax breaks and electrical subsidies to 50 large corporations, squandering public money and shifting the tax burden to smaller companies.