Squanders

When a team "squanders" or lets slip away a golden scoring opportunity, it goes well beyond the more general "left on base" statistic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

MR. LEAVY: Well, it's -- I think "squanders" is a broad term. ❋ ITY National Archives (1999)

The Bowiesque chorus kind of squanders the momentum, but not for long. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Haringey 'squanders' £24m on consultants as Baby P suffered social workers 'salaries on private consultants while overstretched staff failed to save Baby P, the Standard can reveal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I disagree with the author of that piece, David Gal, who claims that the platform strategy is a mistake because it "squanders" rather than helps the core asset of Facebook, which is the community of people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I really dig this set-up, but the movie kind of squanders it, never really getting scary. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Palin's scant experience as an elected official -- she was mayor of a small town for six years and has been governor of Alaska for less than two -- "squanders" McCain's advantage over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in terms of experience in office and readiness to lead, the women voters said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Palin's scant experience as an elected official - she was mayor of a small town for six years and has been governor of Alaska for less than two - "squanders" McCain's advantage over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in terms of experience in office and readiness to lead, the women voters said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of the more interesting is that the practice essentially squanders the potential of the transit station to spur economic development. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the president squanders that opportunity, it would be fair to conclude that the Obama Administration is strategically uninterested in changing Syrian and Iranian behavior. ❋ Richard Grenell (2011)

There are schools across the country that would covet having Manuel Muñoz in their vicinity, yet Tucson squanders his talents, and puts at risk the education of our young. ❋ Paula Beltrán (2012)

Your conclusion for the Flood review is: an oddly unsatisfying read that squanders its attention on an endless series of checkpoints (there goes Europe, there goes Asia, there goes Africa) and poorly exploited character narratives while the real meat of the piece; the set pieces and the book's wider themes are either glossed over or rationed out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He settles for day jobs at the building sites of Tokyo, subsists on freeze-dried noodles and squanders his pay in hostess bars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Noticing the attention Prudence squanders on her boss, Jane reflects: ❋ Unknown (2009)

That's 24 goals in 20 games for the Senegalese.9.27pm: Adam chips a freekick to Dirk Kuyt, who squanders a glorious opportunity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It squanders resources that could be better spent on keeping the Congressmen from tough districts who backed the bill in office during the general elections. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A [Porsche] with an [automatic]?!? That's damn [close] to squanderance!! ❋ Rusty Camaro (2005)

[Joe] is just [squandering] all his profits away at the [casino]! ❋ KopyKat007 (2011)

Yo [kyle], come [squander] [with me]. ❋ Shane/Kyle (2005)

"[Oh man]! I got so [squandered] [last night]!" ❋ That Mary Sue (2013)

[Laurie] [squandered] [the ball] after Mary set a really good ball. ❋ Golf4girl (2005)

that squander of yours is [by far] the [sharpest] i have [seen] ❋ Neez/roddie (2004)

"The Great Squandering focus on terrorism was sleight-of-hand distraction away from the economic threat of China. We've been fooled. And as long as [American's] continue to [bask] in the luxury of fighting against each other, there's an increasing probability that our great-grandchildren will be speaking [Chinglish]." ❋ Sumnerln (2010)

"I really [hope] that [squandering slut bag] doesn't [show up] at the party tonight." ❋ G-ruNdZ (2009)

She was [right squandering] with [the bacon] in the [BLT] ❋ Glyf (2022)