Sentences with waste
waste
W w - There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them. [VERB noun verb-ing]
- It is a waste of time going to the doctor with most mild complaints. [+ of]
- Drink bottles also take up more space than other waste, comprising 38 per cent of total volume of litter.
- The Clean Up Australia Day founder, Ian Kiernan, has stepped up calls for national laws to crack down on e- waste producers.
- The packets are measured to reduce waste.
- Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste.
- Any further investment would be a waste of valuable resources.
- These old computers are still useful. It seems like such a waste to throw them away.
- Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children. [VERB noun]
- All the well-meant, sincere advice is largely wasted on him. [be V-ed on n]
- The current system causes a lot of waste.
- The city oversees waste disposal contracts.
- There was a patch of waste land behind the church.
- ...the barren wastes of the Sahara. [+ of]
- We need to find ways to reduce unnecessary waste.
- Waste, in this connection, is the general word for any stretch of uncultivable, hence uninhabitable, land; a , desert2 is a barren, arid, usually sandy tract of land; , badlands is applied to a barren, hilly waste where rapid erosion has cut the soft rocks into fantastic shapes; , wilderness refers to an uninhabited waste where a lack of paths or trails makes it difficult to find one's way, specif. to such a region thickly covered with trees and underbrush
- To waste an opportunity
- I want that guy wasted by tomorrow
- The polar wastes
- waste land
- A man wasted by age and disease
- To waste an opportunity
- A waste product
- waste energy
- A waste pipe, wastebasket
- That was a waste of timeHer life seemed a waste
- Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2. 4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
- To waste money; to waste words.
- To waste an opportunity.
- The waves waste the rock of the shore.
- To be wasted by disease or hunger.
- A country wasted by a long and futile war.
- A candle wastes in burning.
- The might of England is wasting.
- The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy.
- waste of opportunity.
- The waste and repair of bodily tissue.
- The forest fire left a blackened waste.
- A waste of snow.
- A fortune made in salvaging factory wastes.
- waste energy; waste talents.
- To utilize waste products of manufacture.
- To salvage waste products.
- A waste pipe; waste container.
- She hates to see good food go to waste.
- Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly.