squander
verb (used with object)
to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed byaway ).
have been squandering
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present perfect progressiveof squander.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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I feel as if I am in a mini midlife crisis of discovering my own power and questioning whether I have been squandering it to stay at the lower ambition level of my husband.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
Over the last twelve months, too many universities have been squandering what has been up until now their greatest source of support—the public’s respect and loyalty.
From Forbes ● Dec. 31, 2014
Having engaged in this solemn mummery, you mentally record the fact that you have been squandering your time, and enter into a compact with yourself that no more will you so do.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
We all know how you have been squandering your little property upon the beggars you get to flatter you, but that is no reason for behaving as you do towards me.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
We have been squandering money right and left somehow.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
