waste
Example Sentences
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Jonah realized he was still holding his fork, so he stuck it into his mouth as he walked to the door—no point in wasting perfectly good mashed potatoes.
From Literature
Since her last giant slalom victory Shiffrin has only reached the podium twice in the discipline, but the same cannot be said of the slalom where she has laid waste to the competition this year.
From Barron's
“If I’m paying a lot of money to go somewhere, and fly across the world, why would I want to waste the time sleeping?” said Christen Wall, a business owner from Oregon.
They said their turbines can be configured as combined cycle, which means a steam turbine is added to capture waste heat.
Garbage-choked streets, overloaded landfills and the fear of trash avalanches haunt greater Jakarta, as the world's most populous metropolis grapples with a waste crisis.
From Barron's
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