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Sentences ending with wasted

I see by your face that it will not be wasted. [10]
No time was wasted. [11]
But that night wasn't wasted. [5]
They ought not to have been wasted. [5]
It's more lives to be wasted. [11]
There was no time wasted. [5]
I told her that he was only flushed and haggard as yet and that he was little wasted. [11]
His London success must not be wasted. [5]
Why Hawkins, everything is useful--nothing ought ever to be wasted. [5]
He saw that in many things the old land was backward, and he thought that precious time was being wasted. [11]

Short sentences using wasted

We wasted no time. [5]
He wasted thirty-one kings also. [5]
You're positively wasted, Honora. [9]
You will not be wasted. [9]

More example sentences with the word wasted in them

If anything went wrong, I never wasted any time in telling him about it, and I guess it was one reason he liked me. [9]
The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
She was smiling with joy, too, and she held out her wasted hands and drew me toward her, kissing me on both cheeks. [9]
When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft. [5]
These gentlemen possessed wind which they had not wasted in processions. [9]
A more hollow, wasted, pallid aspect I have not beheld. [14]
No time is wasted, no argument is used. [7]
It would be wasted time to try to argue her out of her delusion, it couldn't be done; I must just humor it. [5]
Venters knew he wasted time in pondering the question, but it held a fascination not easily dispelled. [13]
You wouldn't have wasted space on it if it hadn't had point. [5]
It shall be wasted no more. [9]
As the afternoon wasted away, the lad, wearied with his troubles, sank gradually into a tranquil and healing slumber. [5]
I have already wasted an hour, for I lost my way in the ravines. [10]
Her scant hair was now pure white, her dress seemed to have fallen away from her wasted neck, which was like a trefoil column. [9]
Love, she said, was a woman's first necessity: love being forfeited; there was but one thing left that could give a passing zest to a wasted life, and that was fame, admiration, the applause of the multitude. [5]
Do I look very much wasted away? [8]
Day by day Venters watched the white of her face slowly change to brown, and the wasted cheeks fill out by imperceptible degrees. [13]
We have infinitely valuable forests in the State which are being wasted by lumbermen, which ought to be preserved. [9]
He's been sitting up and talking to us--of course he's pale and weak and wasted, but in spite of that, Asher, he seems to have a strength, a force that he didn't have before he went away. [9]
Both threats and trickeries were wasted upon her. [5]
It is melancholy to think how many epic poets have been lost in the tea-trade, how many dramatists (though the age of the drama has passed) have wasted their genius in great mercantile and mechanical enterprises. [4]
Lindy, faithful servant to the end, held the wasted hands of her mistress against the violence they would have done. [9]
We have got to move or be content to see our effects wasted away and utterly destroyed. [5]
He wasted no time, but dived among the forest of legs about him and disappeared. [5]
I cannot think, therefore, that either the scourge of the East or our Southern malarial pestilence was the disease that wasted the Indians. [3]
It was wasted there, and it seemed a pity. [5]
Then one of them protruded a wasted hand from his blankets and made a feeble beckoning sign with the fingers, to signify, "Be a good fellow; put it under my bed, please. [5]
The desire of the thing wasted them, and they forgot to eat and ceased to talk among themselves. [11]
His flesh remained the same, and grew not less; but that of Pierre wasted, and his eye grew darker with suffering. [11]
We clung to the hours and the minutes, counting them as they wasted away, and parting with them with that pain and bereavement which a miser feels who sees his hoard filched from him coin by coin by robbers and is helpless to prevent it. [5]
The swinging grape-vines, the grassy nooks and vistas glimpsed as we swept by, the flowering creepers waving their red blossoms from the tops of dead trunks, and all the spendthrift richness of the forest foliage, were wasted and thrown away there. [5]
I have told the bishop so, but he is failing so rapidly from old age that I might as well not have wasted my breath. [9]
She pointed to the bed, where a sheet lay limply over the angles of a wasted frame. [9]
When he realised that all his reasoning was wasted, that all worldly argument was vain, he made one last attempt, a forlorn hope, as though to put upon record what he believed to be the truth. [11]
I could not take my eyes away from these worn and wasted wrecks of humanity. [5]
I was much surprised to-day to note how my legs have wasted away above my knees: they are hardly thicker than my upper arm used to be. [5]
Time and again, strangers were astounded to see a wasted, pale, and woe-worn man laboriously climb a telegraph-pole in wintry and lonely places, perch sadly there an hour, with his ear at a little box, then come sighing down, and wander wearily away. [5]
I saw very soon that you were only pretending to know me, and so as I had wasted a compliment on you in the beginning, I made up my mind to punish you. [5]
As she did so, the sleeper started up, and he recognised in the wasted face the features of Richard Swiveller. [12]
The tons of sentiment I have wasted on that unprincipled humbug in my ignorance! [5]
But in another sense the dead man was not himself; and in that case all compliments and affection lavished there were wasted, and a sufficient basis for jealousy. [5]
Once more the sense of awful futility was on him: of wasted toil and blenched force, veins of energy drained of their blood, hope smitten in the way, and every dear dream shattered. [11]
Why should the royal night be wasted in slumber? [4]
Beaton wasted the rest of the day in the emotions and speculations which Dryfoos's call inspired. [8]
The sight of poor Garvin's white and wasted features, the terrible contrast between this miserable tenement and the palace with its unseen pictures and porcelains and tapestries, brought home to him with indescribable poignancy his own predicament. [9]
We toyed with politics, with simplicity, we wasted the land, we played cards as our coaches passed through famine-stricken villages. [9]
She made a pathetic figure drooping there, with her sunny hair contrasting so markedly with her white, wasted cheeks and her hands listlessly clasped and her little bare feet propped in the framework of the rude seat. [13]
It was no part of his plan of this family summer excursion, upon which he had come against his wish, to have any hour of it wasted in idleness. [4]
The da ma ov koars kum when the publik ma be expektd to get rekonsyled to the bezair asspekt of the Simplified Kombynashuns, but--if I may be allowed the expression--is it worth the wasted time? [5]
The afternoon wasted out and the sun shut down, and still there warn't no land anywheres. [5]
I should think one would hardly care to shine if its light wasted itself in the monstrous solitude of the sky. [6]
An' Frank set on the porch and whittled sticks, an' day by day wasted away. [13]
When they entered on him, wasted and ragged he lay asleep on his bed of rotten straw, his fingers between the leaves of a book of meditations. [11]
All the hills on both sides of the Rhone have peaks and precipices, and each has its gray and wasted pile of mouldy walls and broken towers. [5]
The street-car lines of this city were at sixes and sevens, fighting each other; money was being wasted by poor management. [9]
The wasted face of the storekeeper, enhanced as it was by the beard, gave Mr. Merrill such a shock that he could not speak for a few moments--he who rarely lacked for cheering words on any occasion. [9]
A good degree of purity and considerable happiness are possible with grates and blowers; it is a day of trial, when we are all passing through a fiery furnace, and very likely we shall be purified as we are dried up and wasted away. [4]
Tom gave one of his little laughs, and said: "I thought I wouldn't say anything, but if variety is what you are after, you have wasted a piece of glass. [5]
The tropics are not, for all the sentiment that is wasted on them. [5]
I wasted so much time praying that the roof would fall in on these dispiriting flunkies that I had but little left to bestow upon palace and pictures. [5]
Did he ask me for five hundred pounds,--which he did,--I gave it freely, and would gladly have given more, tho' I saw it all wasted in a night when the dice rolled against him. [9]
The burning eyes looked out at Hodder curiously, as at a being upon whom the vials of wrath were somehow wasted, against whom the weapons of power were of no account. [9]
But nay, it little matters Look at the wasted seeds that autumn scatters, The myriad germs that Nature shapes and shatters! [6]
He did not like to see anything wasted, she said. [6]
Half of its length has wasted away in the course of the ages, but the other ten miles of it remain in the plain by Govardhun to this day as proof of the might of the inspiration of our gods. [5]
A rare criminal lawyer, likewise, was wasted in her. [9]
A pair of large, clear, intelligent, grey eyes looked out of a head so worn and wasted, as to be more like a mere skull than the head of a living man. [10]
He got up, lame, stiff, and half famished, washed himself in the river, stayed his stomach with a pint or two of water, and trudged off toward Westminster, grumbling at himself for having wasted so much time. [5]
But had I known of this, I should never have wasted my breath in persuading him to remain. [9]
To those who know the world it is not singular that, of the two, Armour was thought to have made the mistake and had the misfortune, or that people wasted their pity and their scorn upon him alone. [11]
Mr. Tooting evidently knew, for he wasted no precious moments in asking questions. [9]
But Gitta had just been to see the sick mother, and told Cyriax that Kuni, silly, softhearted thing, had wasted her gold coins on the dying woman. [10]
I tell you, it's trouble wasted, for she's dressing her hair to receive our guest from Messina; and, if she were standing where those cabbage-leaves be, she wouldn't contradict me if I were to repeat what you heard from my lips this morning at sunrise. [10]
Even to Jack it might some day come with the force of keen regret for years wasted, that it is enough to break a body's heart to see how little a thing can make a woman happy. [4]
A good deal is wasted on his hands, and the outside of his face, and on his clothes, but he does not care; he is not stingy. [4]
Thus no time is to be wasted on frivolous topics. [4]
In particular, it is in evidence that through the wicked power so obtained, they did invoke and bring about a storm that wasted all the region round about. [5]
But this waiting interval was not wasted in idleness by the assembled students. [5]
He wasted no ink in this emergency, either in cablegrams or letters; he promptly took ship for America to look into the matter himself. [5]
He sat absorbed in sullen gloom, muttering frantic curses, and haughtily desired the high-priest to restore the offering he had wasted on a god who was so malignant, and as hostile to him as all else in this city of abomination. [10]
All that night I walked the ramparts, thinking, remembering, hoping, waiting for the morning; and when I saw the light break over those far eastern parishes, wasted by fire and sword, I set out on a journey to the Valdoche Hills. [11]
All my life I have stumbled upon lucky chances of large size, and whenever they were wasted it was because of my own stupidity and carelessness. [5]
In former times his pocket had never been empty, for Mena had thrown him many a ring of silver, or even of gold, but his restless and ambitious spirit wasted no regrets on lost luxuries. [10]
She looked into his eyes, and her own lashes fell before the hopelessness there But he put out his fingers wasted by illness, and she took them in her own. [9]
Gaston hoped that his campaign would not be wasted, and the fluffy gentleman retired. [11]
And they took him, and placed him by the fire in the card-room, a wasted figure, but fastidious in manner and scrupulously neat in person as of old. [11]
I spoke to him, and he bowed, but did not speak; and then Doltaire said: "You see, Voban, your labour on Monsieur was wasted so far as concerns the world to come. [11]
He had aimed high, at first, but as time and his money wasted away he grew less and less exacting, until at last he was willing to serve in the humblest capacities if so he might get bread and shelter. [5]
Hell, here and hereafter, was the spectacle of wasted opportunity, and there is no suffering to compare to it. [9]
Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the church pavement. [14]
Now she lifted her head and noted with surprise how the day had wasted. [5]
In eighteen months her figure had gained height; anxious yearning and constant contention with her mother had wasted her superabundance of flesh; her face had become oval, her bearing self-possessed. [10]
The thought that her best days, which she would have employed in loving him, were being vainly wasted, with no advantage to anyone, tormented her incessantly. [2]
In the end he said: "These years I have wasted. [5]
Once and again he lost his way, but at last found the right path, though he had wasted many hours, first in the village, then behind the locked door, and finally in searching for the right road. [10]
Personally, while I have sympathy for the unfortunate, I'm not at all sure that much of the energy and money put into the institutional work of churches isn't wasted. [9]
As usual she has wasted an hour to save a sesterce, and you, neither of you have any time to spare. [10]
Too much time has already been wasted on it. [10]
If Tom only had the wasted opportunity back again! [5]

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