Exempel på squander

• His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy.

• The papermaker who employed four vats lost one hundred production days per year, and squandered cartloads of coal warming the pulp in idle vessels.

• In fact, compared to the efficiency (and self-sufficiency) of photosynthesis, much more energy is squandered when one animal consumes another or consumes plant material.

• Meanwhile, he lived ' an idle and profligate life never working at his business ', and squandering away their money.

• Precious foreign currency needed for raw materials purchases could not be squandered on debt servicing.

• In hindsight, a good deal of science appears to squander resourses.

• To squander three of them by introducing four blocks could be quite wrong.

• Several major opportunities to cross-reference information were squandered during the production of this encyclopaedia and that means its value as a research tool is limited.

• Landlords had the means, but they preferred to purchase land for non-economic purposes and/or to squander their money in other pursuits.

• She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.

• You can save, waste, squander it or use time badly or just use it up, so that you run out of it ('have none left').

• The old were provided for within the family, and the law made sure that family land could not be squandered.

• Money that could be paid as tax was squandered in these canteens.

• The drinker squanders not only his wealth, but also his honor.

• This is the logic of dissipation of the wine poem, which symbolically squanders the moral wealth of the self-integrated man.