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

The addition of one minute at the end is met with derision by fans who I think are suggesting Rovers have been wasting time...

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024

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