have been wasting
- present perfect progressive of waste.
Example Sentences
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You have been wasting your time primarily on Bluesky, rather than X, for half a year now.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025
"I was very conscious by having all these tests I could have been wasting NHS resources to satisfy my own conviction that I had Covid. I felt like I was being unnecessarily neurotic."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
And Brenner, then a platoon commander in his mid-20s, thought it was a good idea to get “19-year-olds to read books and use their brains when they would otherwise have been wasting away.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021
Ideally, nobody should have been wasting their time with this B-grade movie, but that was another matter.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2012
“Mr. Hoodhood,” said Mrs. Baker, “we have been wasting our opportunities.”
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
