How to Use waster in a Sentence

waster

noun

• He thinks every meeting is a big time waster.
• He has been called a waster of taxpayers' money.
• The six-month battle over health care has been a time waster and a tone setter.
  — Dan Balz, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2017
• Or will this become a passing fad and be seen as a time-waster?
  — Blair Currie, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Learn more about avoiding online scams and time wasters.
  — Laura McMullen, ajc, 20 June 2017
• Having to run back to the home center after the work gets underway is a huge time waster.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 13 Feb. 2023
• The wasters ignored her on her way out, all of them still standing patiently in line.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
• Yet a game cast and third-act momentum upgrade the movie to an acceptable time-waster.
  — Jon Niccum, kansascity.com, 15 June 2017
• Weekend time-wasters Per usual, there are plenty of free games to go around this weekend.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 1 Mar. 2019
• The results run the gamut from 100-hour epics to mindless mobile phone time-wasters, and everything in between.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2019
• Texting topped the list of non-work time wasters on the phone, followed by checking the weather, reading the news, playing games, and shopping.
  — Amy Capetta, Redbook, 13 June 2017
• Texting topped the list of non-work time wasters on the phone, followed by checking the weather, reading the news, playing games, and shopping.
  — Amy Capetta, Redbook, 13 June 2017
• While some businesses may hold meetings daily, this can be a huge time waster.
  — Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The dominant narrative of the last decades has been that social housing is full of wasters and scroungers who can’t get on the housing ladder.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2017
• Dining out No list of top money wasters would be complete without dining out.
  — The Motley Fool, 4 May 2018
• The lack of clarity is a huge time waster for everyone and can be a productivity killer.
  — Liz Bentley, Marie Claire, 12 July 2017
• Engineers love to avoid this power waster if at all possible.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• While this structure may have been influential in the past, many now see it as a time-waster and a hindrance to organizational progress.
  — Tinna Jackson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Leaky toilet tanks are also huge water wasters; a faulty flush mechanism in the tank allows water to slowly and silently leak into the bowl.
  — Joesph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2012
• One money-waster is a lack of governance over cloud infrastructure.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• Petersen had been invited by Poshmark to share her photography tips at the 2018 Poshfest, but according to Couloute, that was a time-waster.
  — Alden Wicker, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
• Anne-Marie Bonneau, another big-time zero-waster who goes by @zerowastechef on social media, is beloved in the movement for her practical approach.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 30 July 2019
• At least a remote time waster isn’t simultaneously wasting everyone else’s time in the process.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
• For just five bucks a month, a subscription to the service will give you access to nearly a hundred games, bringing everything from small time-wasters to indie-game darlings to all of your Apple devices.
  — Wired, 21 Sep. 2019
• One big time-waster many of us don't take stock of is typing, especially considering there are auto-fill shortcuts out there that can quickly fix typos, complete words and phrases, and auto-fill forms.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2019
• Here, the editors of Popular Mechanics wax poetic on our all-time favorite websites—the ones that shaped our internet habits, perhaps changed our lives, or simply served as excellent time-wasters.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• When asked what the greatest need is, Fleming said because of the scale of the disaster, monetary donations are needed the most as rehabilitation will continue long after the flood waster has receded.
  — Allison Sampite-Montecalvo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Addicting Games was my go-to time waster; the simplicity and fleeting nature of flash gaming was something only truly appreciated by the adolescent me.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019
• Hotels, with their breakfast spreads and many catered events, are notorious wasters, so WWF investigated ways to green up the buffet line without sacrificing elegance.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• Recruiting coordinator Phil Vigil noted that being forced to do virtual official visits one at a time was a huge time-waster, when normal official visits can usually be grouped.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Sep 2024