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• He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former.From the entry silver spoon
• Refusing to admit the grain of truth in their opponents' arguments is how they squandered their own political power; a smart amount of paromologia might have preserved it.From the entry paromologia
• Hughes and Taylor Schwarz parodies “Jurassic Park” through well-placed laughs mixed with squandered opportunities.2016 May 15, Matthew J. Palm, “Fringe Festival review: ‘Dino World: A Shave-a-Saurus Rex’”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry -sauras
• "Every year I pick a spot in the world to squander my vacation.2010 February 21 [2009 August 28], Peipei Zhou, “WHY WE TRAVEL READER PHOTO”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Zamyn-Üüd
• "I've always been the guy who shoots himself in the foot and squanders every opportunity," he says.2009 August, SPIN, volume 25, number 8, page 62. From the entry shoot oneself in the foot
• "Billions of dollars are being squandered, and the taxpayer is being taken to the cleaners," Waxman said.2007 February 4, Scott Shane, Ron Nixon, “U.S. contractors becoming a virtual fourth branch of government”, in New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry take to the cleaners
• The savings and scrimpings from the cold nights of all his years were ripe to be squandered.1910, Jack London, The Wit of Porportuk. From the entry scrimping
• A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport. From the entry sharpness
• Despite a goal to Vin Gardiner for Carlton, courtesy of an infringement, the Blues squandered many opportunities in attack.2011, Ashley Browne, Grand Finals: The Stories Behind the Premier Teams of the Victorian Football League. 1897-1938, Slattery Media Group…. From the entry spray
• All gone now, that brandy, squandered, except for half of the very last bottle, wrapped in a shirt in Daspir's pack.2007, Madison Smartt Bell, The Stone that the Builder Refused: A Novel of Haiti, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry Saint Dominican
• The man never met talent he couldn’t squander.2005, Joe Lindsey, “What's with T-Mobile”, in Tour de France News. From the entry bass-ackwards
• He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82. From the entry corked up
• The chrysosperm in sunbeams pent A largesse squandered.1909, John Davidson, “Liverpool Street Station”, in Fleet Street: And Other Poems, page 49. From the entry chrysosperm
• Mancini's side remain in fourth place but an opportunity to press home an advantage over closest rivals Tottenham was squandered with a lamentable display.2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport. From the entry press home
• It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring.2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport. From the entry stop-start
• Besides, a video post room's console is smaller than those used for film, and you couldn't squander a dozen or more channels on dialog.2008, Jay Rose, chapter 8, in Audio Postproduction for Film and Video (Motion Pictures), Focal Press, →ISBN, page 18-. From the entry dialog
• The Chandlers also were interested in retaining the family fortune, not squandering it, and the Mirror-News was losing $2 million a year.1984, Peter Benjaminson, Death in the Afternoon: America's Newspaper Giants Struggle for Survival, Andrews, McMeel & Parker, →ISBN. From the entry drive a stake through its heart
• Poor Nannie tewed on, hau'f hungered ti deead, Sha kenn'd nowt o ' t'gowd 'at war squandered awaay, Just 'arnin 'eneeaf fer watter an' breead.1914, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society - Volumes 3-4, page 59. From the entry tew
• Not a happy story by any means, and the final note struck is tragic in the intensity of renunciation and squandered passion.13 Oct 1913, The Western Mail, Perth, page 48, column 1. From the entry grand passion
• I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry triviality
• But once again their forwards, including Sloss, sprayed the ball in front of goal and squandered their momentum by kicking a solitary goal and six careless behinds.2016 June 28, Nick Richardson, The Game of Their Lives, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN. From the entry spray
• Don't you see, laddie, you're much too valuable to squander your energies playing the lousy short con, suffering the cop roustings and head bustings, the chump change scores.2012, Iceberg Slim, Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life, page 12. From the entry busting
• Menendez suggests that they both capture a fascination with fashion, the appreciation for that which is done merely for effect, its unashamed desire to squander it all.1990 September 1, Norma Romano-Benner, “Shaping the ’90s”, in Americas. From the entry unashamed
• It's also a proof that the newly appointed mad-dogs may be the same bad-eggs of the system that squandered the defense budget, sided with the insurgents and fought the country.2015 November 23, James Butty, “Nigeria's Military Vows to Destroy Boko Haram as Attacks Continue”, in Voice of America. From the entry mad-dog
• That inadvertently chucked a handful in the fan, all right; the foreman was summoned to the dispatch manager's office and there upbraided for squandering such an asset on mere flatdwellers.1972, James McClure, The Caterpillar Cop, London; Boston, M.A.: Faber and Faber, published 1992, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry flatdweller

Meaning of squander

1. verb To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
2. verb To scatter; to disperse.
3. verb To wander at random; to scatter.

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Questions about squander in a sentence

How do you use squander in a sentence?

Squander is used as a verb. For example: “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”

What is a short sentence with squander?

“The chrysosperm in sunbeams pent A largesse squandered.”

What does squander mean?

Squander means to waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.