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1301 examples of Wasted in a sentence

No, they wasted their money on this.
This is four billion hours wasted in this country alone.
And it's 2.4 billion gallons of gasoline wasted.
And I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that matter.
But there's a lot of wasted transportation and convoluted things happening.
Very little water is wasted.
All the roofs are connected underground to a 400,000 liter tank, and no water is wasted.
And since we released it about three or four years ago, a lot of websites have started switching from the old CAPTCHA, where people wasted their time, to the new CAPTCHA where people are helping to digitize books.
The idea with this is that we're going to eliminate tons of food miles, wasted energy, and overfishing of tuna by creating tuna, or any exotic produce or item from a very far-away place, with local, organic produce; so we have a watermelon from Wisconsin.
Even if you don't care anything about stargazing, this should worry you, because it means that 60-70% of the energy we use to light the outdoors is wasted by blotting out the stars.
I was so wasted."
Most of it now is wasted and the technologies for saving it keep improving faster than we're installing them.
It also turns out that when we find where the gas is being vented and leaked, most of those sources can be fixed easily and inexpensively, saving the gas that would have otherwise been wasted.
We're talking about good, fresh food that is being wasted on a colossal scale.
Unfortunately, empirical data, good, hard stats, don't exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some proxy way of uncovering how much food was being wasted.
We fed 5,000 people all on food that otherwise would have been wasted.
A lot of potential of young children is wasted.
He told us that, in fact, two out of every three dollars of our petrodollars that we spent, the taxpayers' money, was wasted or stolen.
Two thirds of the money stolen or wasted.
Twenty percent of the electricity in homes is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have inefficient lightbulbs.
That's 40 billion dollars a year wasted on electricity that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to climate change.
In fact, here in the U.S., 40 percent of food purchased for the home is wasted.
Half of the world's produced food is wasted.
In the U.K., this is such a problem that there was a government report a few years ago that actually said the second biggest offender of wasted food in the U.K. is the soggy lettuce.
Fortunately, we found out that if you go kill the sand flies, you probably can have success there, but we spent five years, you could say wasted five years, and about 60 million, on a path that turned out to have very modest benefit when we got there.
In fact, I've pretty much wasted most of my life DJing in night clubs and producing pop records.
I wasted 30 hours of my life searching for this kitten that had nothing at all to do with what I was trying to accomplish.
For me, it means no more wasted weekends.
I now realize I've wasted most of my life."
So if you take the average commute time in America, which is about 50 minutes, you multiply that by the 120 million workers we have, that turns out to be about six billion minutes wasted in commuting every day.
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