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Sentences ending with waste

For our food was gone, and no game was to be shot over this watery waste. [9]
It would be tried at other times and in other forms, but it never seemed to accommodate itself to a central idea, so that the good writing in it eventually went to waste. [5]
Love that is too hot and strong Burneth soon to waste. [9]
She brings everything to its end and purpose in obedience to some rule and measure, and will so deal with me after I am dead; there is no waste. [10]
One flame of the three-branched lamp had flickered into extinction and the wick of another was beginning to waste. [10]
The history of the building of the good ship Petrel is similar to that of all created things, a story of trial and error and waste. [9]
How long would that beacon burn which flamed now in such prodigal waste? [9]
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and I will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. [5]
It seemed a pity to have all this power going to waste. [5]
As soon as Pierre began to say anything that did not fit in with that aim, the channel was removed and the water could flow to waste. [2]

Short sentences using waste

He is all waste now. [11]
No waste, nothing thrown away. [11]
Why waste your opportunities? [9]
She didn't waste a penny. [5]
They waste nothing. [5]
Don't waste it. [5]

Sentences containing waste two or more times

All this fight is waste, Hugh, damned waste of the nation's energy. [9]

More example sentences with the word waste in them

Without that it would be unable to develop its mines, build its roads, work to advantage and without great waste its fruitful land, establish manufactures or enter upon a prosperous industrial career. [5]
The elephant-hunter's enthusiasm will waste away little by little, and his zeal will perish at last if he plod around a month without finding a member of that noble family to assassinate. [5]
Then the thing will move right along and your royalties will cease to be waste paper. [5]
Far across that wide waste began the slow lift of uplands through which Deception Pass cut its tortuous many-canyoned way. [13]
Once in a while I heard Weldon's answering shot, but I remembered my promise to Tom not to waste powder unless I were sure. [9]
He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object. [5]
One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a desert, across the sands of which we are merely fugitives, fleeing from the wrath to come. [4]
Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for--why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand. [10]
Daylight saw him, wet, haggard, broken, looking out over the waste of shaken water. [11]
What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
Oh, if we were only across that wide, open waste of sage! [13]
Twenty-Five Dollars a week--it looked like bloated luxury--a fortune a sinful and lavish waste of money. [5]
This festival: the wedding of the Bride of the Nile to her mighty and unresting spouse, on whom the weal or woe of the land depended, was to be as a flowery oasis in the waste of dearth and desolation. [10]
Why do you waste your time? [9]
Let us not waste too much pity on "homeless" France. [5]
Let us not waste this golden, this beneficent, this providential opportunity. [5]
Why will you waste the precious time? [5]
Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? [7]
Deliver it, and waste no more time about it. [5]
There isn't a waste letter in it anywhere. [5]
He did not waste any time, but flew to his mother, to tell her and Nan and Bet all about it and get them to help him enjoy the great news. [5]
He did not waste any on the illustrations. [5]
There was no waste and no stint. [6]
And now it was peopled, for there came from a cleft of the hills an army of buffaloes lounging slowly down the waste, with tossing manes and hoofs stirring the snow into a feathery scud. [11]
We did not want to waste the time on any common thing. [4]
Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began--and was going to waste all the while. [5]
Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began --and was going to waste all the while. [5]
It has not vital energy enough to supply the waste of the more exhausting emotions. [6]
It was a verdomde waste of good horses. [11]
And through the varying waste of elements There passed a sail, which caught the opposing wind, Triumphant, as an army in its tents Beholds the foe it, conquering, left behind. [11]
Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
Jim, drunken and unreliable, with broken will and fighting to find himself--the waste places were for him, until he was the master of his will and emotions. [11]
It was her turn to scorn persuasive foolery now, and she did not waste it. [5]
I'm not going to waste my time. [4]
If I were to waste my breath until six o'clock, it would be no use. [9]
It has come to other men who do nothing but waste and riot. [12]
He listened breathlessly to hear what more the Indian might say; but Arjuna, who regarded it as sacrilege to waste the highest lore on one unworthy of it, went on reading to himself, and Adventus stretched himself out to sleep. [10]
It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence--a Kyrie eleison. [11]
If you want to catch mice you must waste bacon, and if we are to tempt men into a snare we must know what their notions and ideas are, and begin by endeavoring to confuse them. [10]
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. [5]
They waste their time over words, miserable words! [10]
He has no time or words to waste if he would keep 'posted. [5]
You waste much time here in inventing plans that lead to nothing, and making delays that are a damage. [5]
There is no timber of any consequence in Palestine--none at all to waste upon fires--and neither are there any mines of coal. [5]
There are a thousand of them, and they can lay waste this island, if they get going. [11]
Hour after hour they sprawled down the waste, and for numberless hours they must go on and on, sleepless, tireless, alert, if the man was to be saved at all. [11]
We saw water, then, but nowhere in all the waste around was there a foot of shade, and we were scorching to death. [5]
Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser-in fees, expenses, and waste of time. [7]
The hall of their triumph is waste and desolate. [4]
Most lives, though their stream is loaded with sand and turbid with alluvial waste, drop a few golden grains of wisdom as they flow along. [6]
The gardener uses the waste of the arsenic furnaces to kill the weeds in his walks. [3]
Going down to the village store was not very exciting, and was, on the whole, a waste of our precious time. [4]
I shan't waste the time--I haven't the slightest desire to loaf, but a consuming desire to work, ever since I got back my swing. [5]
Come, waste not the time--cannot I overtake him? [5]
And for Venters the outlook before him was in some sense similar to a feeling of his future, and with searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. [13]
I saw that the last chance had the best show, but I didn't waste any bother about that; time was too precious. [5]
At the end the judge decided to admit the testimony, as the judge usually does in such cases, after a sufficient waste of time in what are called arguments. [5]
They hope that the folly over which they waste so many hours will smooth their way to the fields of the blest, and yet they themselves close the road by the pleasures they indulge in. [10]
This is what the father of Minnette, looking out of the window upon the wide waste of snow, and the evergreens bent to the ground with the weight of it, says, "It looks like the depths of spring. [4]
As far as the eye could reach, in the moonlight, there was no desert visible, but only a level waste of shining water. [5]
He had been the enemy of waste, the apostle of frugality and thrift; and it was that which had enabled him, in his short career, to win the confidence of the big men behind him in Montreal, to make good every step of the way. [11]
As to conducting the draft by townships, I find it would require such a waste of labor already done, and such an additional amount of it, and such a loss of time, as to make it, I fear, inadmissible. [7]
Mr. Ruskin says that "the Sirens are the great constant desires, the infinite sicknesses of heart, which, rightly placed, give life, and, wrongly placed, waste it away; so that there are two groups of Sirens, one noble and saving, as the other is fatal. [4]
There at his table sat the dark, impenetrable operator, whose time was exactly apportioned, serene, saturnine, or genial, as the case might be, listening attentively, speaking deliberately, despatching the affair in hand without haste or the waste of a moment. [4]
I worked him Sundays and all; he was going, Sundays, the same as week days, and it was no use to waste the power. [5]
And there is such a grave analytical profundity in the faces of "The Connoisseurs;" and such pathos in the picture of the fawn suckling its dead mother, on a snowy waste, with only the blood in the footprints to hint that she is not asleep. [5]
From thence eastward stretched the great waste of prairie and forest inhabited by roving bands of the forty Indian nations. [9]
And, afterward, one star came out over it, and a bright light shone from the hut on the Grand Mulets, a rock in the waste of snow, where a Frenchman was passing the night on his way to the summit. [4]
Imagine a stranger staking out a mining claim among the costly shrubbery in your front yard and calmly proceeding to lay waste the ground with pick and shovel and blasting powder! [5]
Then presently their spokesman told Joan they were aware that she had a message for the King, wherefore she was now commanded to put it into words, briefly and without waste of time or embroideries of speech. [5]
I read a sort of lecture to three different audiences during the last month and this; but I did so under circumstances which made it a waste of no time whatever. [7]
He explained in some detail, with statistics, the waste and inefficiency and dishonesty in various departments under the present system, dwelling particularly upon the deplorable state of affairs in the city hospital. [9]
It is so sociable to have them hovering about us on this broad waste of water. [5]
But married or single you could help him; so why waste your days here? [11]
Here waste was sin: with us part and parcel of a creed. [9]
I was greatly shocked and grieved, but there was no time to waste in emotions; I must start at once. [5]
The sun was shining hard just then, and the stern, sharp rocks, tumbling awkwardly back into the waste behind, had an insolent harshness. [11]
I threw the sheet into the waste basket, presently picked it out again and reread the sentence containing my name. [9]
Joan waited to see if the chief minister might wish to defend his position; but he was experienced and wise, and not a man to waste his forces where the current was against him. [5]
I stood on Sarum's treeless plain, The waste that careless Nature owns; Lone tenants of her bleak domain, Loomed huge and gray the Druid stones. [6]
As the inventor said, "This purge doesn't waste any time fooling around; it attends strictly to business. [5]
You would have said there can be no lamp without oil or gas, or other combustible substance, to feed it; and yet you see a filament which sheds a light like that of noon all around it, and does not waste at all. [6]
Victoria had been run away with before, and having some knowledge of the animal she rode, she did not waste her strength by pulling on the curb, but sought rather to quiet him with her voice, which had no effect whatever. [9]
For miles he rode away into the waste along the northern trail, ever away from La Touche and his own home. [11]
In one dreary, rocky waste, away above the line of vegetation, we met a procession of twenty-five mounted young men, all from America. [5]
Returning down the rocky steep, I descried, solitary in that great waste of rock and snow, the form of a lady whom I supposed I had left sleeping at the inn, overcome with the fatigue of yesterday's tramp. [4]
You have no right to waste lives. [11]
In fine, to return to our knowledge of the short life of fashions that are for the moment striking, why should we waste precious time in chasing meteoric appearances, when we can be warmed and invigorated in the sunshine of the great literatures? [4]
An' it ain't regular for rustlers to waste time chasin' one rider. [13]
He was a raving, deafening, devastating typhoon, laying waste the cowering seas but with an unvexed refuge in the centre where all comers were safe and at rest. [5]
Why have to put up with all this useless expense and worry and waste of time? [9]
The trees have put on a greener foliage since the water has poured in, and the woods look bright and fresh, but this pleasant aspect to the eye is neutralized by the interminable waste of water. [5]
But," she added, pushing back her dark locks from her high forehead, "I don't understand myself, how, with the mountain of care that now burdens my soul, I can waste even a single word upon such trifles. [10]
The art whose province it is to heal and to save cannot protect its own ranks from the inroads of disease and the waste of the Destroyer. [3]
A confusion was produced in one part of their ranks: Muza called to the chiefs of the army, 'Let us waste no more time in empty challenges--let us charge upon the enemy: he who assaults has always an advantage in the combat. [4]
Poorly as her prodigal labors were repaid in proportion to the waste of life they cost, her value was too well established to leave her without what, under other circumstances, would have been a more than sufficient compensation. [6]
The enemy had plunged into the wide plains of La Beauce--a roadless waste covered with bushes, with here and there bodies of forest trees--a region where an army would be hidden from view in a very little while. [5]
He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, and razed their cities to the ground. [5]
A great many people in this world have but one form of rhetoric for their profoundest experiences,--namely, to waste away and die. [6]
Presently, like the peak of some submerged land, we saw lifted out of that rolling waste the "Butt" of Warlencourt--the burial-mound of this modern Marathon. [9]

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