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Example sentences for: wasted

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A lot of the money is likely to be simply wasted, though.
On the Today show, Hersh endured a two-day grilling that seemed like payback for the time and money NBC had wasted on a documentary it abandoned because of suspicions about the forged papers.
And, an essayist argues that the Internet is "a monument to idleness and wasted time," then explains why that's good.
In principle, I'm all for flouting hobgoblinish rules of consistency, and I think that farce--a violent genre that feeds on desperation--is often wasted on trivial conflicts.
We wasted lots of Vernon's time,