Verb (used without object) : A candle wastes in burning. ,The might of England is wasting. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : 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. From Dictionary.com.
Department of Agriculture began promoting what they call the wastes '. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
The Independent: McCain wastes no time in turning negative. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
I hope McCain wastes a lot of his money in California. mollygonz. From Wordnik.com. [McCain campaign: We'll win where Clinton did] Reference
The body needs bile to aid digestion and carry wastes from the liver out of the body. From Wordnik.com. [About Biliary Atresia] Reference
Not only does this fragmentation make it difficult to take full advantage of spread spectrum, but it just plain wastes spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Excellent Article on Open Spectrum] Reference
And as far as the long-term management of radioactive wastes is concerned, we are fundamentally no wiser than we were 30 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » CEI Scholar: Gore Thinks Climate Change is Caused by ‘Widespread Sin,’ a Sign of ‘the Antichrist’] Reference
Police say responding to fake or accidental 911 calls wastes valuable time. From Wordnik.com. [SIMCOE - Home] Reference
You need only rudimentary French to spot that Flaubert never wastes a word. From Wordnik.com. [No Way, Madame Bovary] Reference
Scotland, and Wales, and Cornwall, were not many years ago described as wastes and wildernesses. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
It is not only more appropriate but also more helpful and refreshing to call wastes the resources that have not been fully utilized. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
As a second problem, of course, the transportation of large integers "wastes" bandwidth. From Wordnik.com. [Phrack Issue #63 (The Lost Circle of Hackers)] Reference
You'd probably consider the stuff I think L.A. "wastes" money on to be critical services. From Wordnik.com. [What "The People" Are Fighting For This Week At City Hall] Reference
Since your new biogas unit is much the same as your old one, you can use the same kind of wastes in the same way. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Is this actually a form of potlatch, in which one gains prestige by the extravagance of the resources one "wastes"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Not sure how finishing her term "wastes" millions. From Wordnik.com. [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference
BBC 'wastes' £150,000 giving away trees and vegetable seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
That explains why he 'wastes' so much of his time on this forum. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
It wastes power, but everything we do "wastes" power in one way or another. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Even with this aid, Israel "wastes" a disproportionate amount on defense spending. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference
I find it amazing that Steve Jobs "wastes" his time trying to explain why he does the things he does. From Wordnik.com. [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] Reference
Our water system is failing, (another thing the government "wastes" money on, providing us clean water). From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
However, these are not ordinary 'wastes' or bio-degradable ones to be disposed-off in such a manner either. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The problem is that this movie borrows so heavily from other better movies that it kind of wastes the concept. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Speaking as one who regularly "wastes" my time each election cycle, I remind them that the Republicans were once a third party. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
Not overlooking "wastes", a growing issue especially in the electronics industry, Sinseprod also works on sustainable and renewable energy. From Wordnik.com. [telecoms.com - telecoms industry news, analysis and opinion] Reference
It wastes lives and treasure like a spendthrift heir. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghosts Of Vietnam] Reference
He wastes no time in snapping the audience's eyes wide open. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming With 'Eyes Wide Shut'] Reference
Which, of course, is what he hopes his opponent wastes time doing. From Wordnik.com. [NFL Draft Report: Silence is Golden!] Reference
At first, officials blamed volatile wastes from a cooking-oil plant. From Wordnik.com. [A Disaster In Mexico] Reference
Would you live near a storage site that contains 22,000 tons of toxic wastes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Return To Love Canal] Reference
"Bully" wastes the talents of Swanson, who resembles a young Cybill Shepherd. From Wordnik.com. [Bloody Good And Bloody Awful] Reference
Chimney breasts of massive stone stand piled and gaunt as Inuit cairns in arctic wastes. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Critics say the trend toward high-tech delivery wastes money and makes childbirth less safe. From Wordnik.com. [HIGH-TECH BIRTH: DO YOU NEED A C-SECTION?] Reference
Why voters are furiousNinety-three percent of the people say that government wastes too much money. From Wordnik.com. ['Those Are The Facts'] Reference
He has no throne, no armies, not even any real territory, aside from the rocky wastes of Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To September 11] Reference
The clanking armor columns rumble out of the sandy wastes into lush farmland, crisscrossed with canals. From Wordnik.com. [The Grunt's War] Reference
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