After school I never waste time at my locker. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“We use it, or it goes to waste,” Muff had told her one night not long after they’d arrived. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t waste time thinking about the future until the night the sluggers abducted me and told me the world was going to end. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” Teresa said—Thomas knew she was too smart to waste time arguing about it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t waste that place at the dining-room table, would you?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still the bread goes stale and Mikey is so bothered by the waste he talks to a rich woman with a cookbook and she tells him make bread pudding. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, we stood wasting time, staring at each other. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped a nod wasn’t the same as an out-loud lie, since he might need one in the near future and didn’t want to waste it when things weren’t too awful. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think that you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is how I find out that Miss McDaniels has yet another pet peeve besides lateness, wasting valuable time, and utter nonsense. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She wastes no time retrieving a soil sample pouch. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It is quite fortúnate you found us. It would have taken much time to free two spinners from King Gorger’s prisons unnoticed, and we have no time to waste,” said Ripred to Gox. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I just didn’t want to waste your time.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Well, sure, when he put it like that, I could see that I was never going to become a preteen real estate mogul if I wasted earnings by renting rather than buying. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so pained at the waste of money that she couldn’t enjoy any of the new things, though she was pressed to wear the shoes home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Ninety-five percent of school is a complete waste of time.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“This is being paid for. I don’t want to waste time.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The smells of food cooking and cigarette smoke mask the reek of waste. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was sickened, if only at the waste of it: all they killed—cows, horses, men—they left to rot or burn. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, a ‘waste book’, in which you recorded everything exactly as it happened, in as much detail as possible: you could refer to this in the event of any future dispute or confusion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Mark didn’t waste time with explanations—the man’s weapon was propped up against the wall next to him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

This was what the men of Hellgate competed for: a private cell, a blanket, clean water, a bucket for waste. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The people of her khalasar had welcomed,the chance to recover from the ravages of the red waste, but now that they were plump and rested once again, they began to grow unruly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rats scatter in front of us with squeaks of terror, and I see only their tails, slipping between mounds of waste, empty trash cans, soggy cardboard boxes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt something terrible, but she was wasting her time. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His replacement, a man in tune with Palmer’s beliefs, wasted no time in granting him a warrant for the arrest of three thousand aliens, most of whom Palmer suspected of being Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Across the waste they saw riders picking their way; they were coming from the north side, and already they were drawing near to Orthanc. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The seats were made of polished wood, most of them still empty as people filed in for the showing, and Penelope wasted no time sitting right in the front row nearest to the piano. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Over all the leagues of waste before the gates of Mordor there was a black silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the exact size of the Coral Queen’s holding tank, but I guessed it carried a couple hundred gallons of waste. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Tell me when you see the color blue, Melody,” he said in that voice that told me he thought this was all a waste of time. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That and the ammonia smell from the chicken waste was so strong you could hardly breathe. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I won’t. This is a ridiculous waste of our precious and dwindling time.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

What the heck had she been thinking, wasting Mamma and Papa’s money, coming out here on basically a whim and a wish to meet Jenny Lindt? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Saves it all going to waste, what, what?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Jasper Jr. wasted no time blaming the boat disaster on his best buddy, the guy who’d saved his life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I would never have wasted all that energy, would never have lost my food, if it wasn’t for him! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After Mrs. Tesla evacuated the lab and called the hazardous waste removal squad, she praised Tyson and me for being natural chemists. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh told me that I was wasting my time, that they were looking for people who'd bought platinum watches, not rusted cranial saws. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What kind of fools would go waste money on store-bought tables when they can have these for free?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The trailer was such a disaster that sweeping and mopping seemed like a waste of energy; it should have been towed straight to the county dump. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Then let us come at once,” I cried, “we are wasting the precious, precious time!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a country where so many people consider it a waste to send girls to school, it is a teacher who helps you believe in your dreams. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’d been running Thunder to the wrong marker for months, running him so hard and so long that Thunder had just wasted away to nothing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The noisy one took a few quick steps backward and said, “No time to waste; come along now.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She does not waste her energy in picking never-ending arguments. But there is a lot going on in her mind, I can tell.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I can save forty-four seconds,” he grumbled, "but I wasted two minutes this morning putting this bandage on my throat.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t afraid for his life now, just irritated that this fink had wasted his time. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Minions collected and stored every object he touched, food waste included, to ensure that no lesser persons could profane these objects with their touch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want it to be real, this much death, this much dying, this waste of human life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted Rufus and Tom Weylin to waste time looking around the plantation for me tomorrow when they realized they hadn’t seen me for a while. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

But don’t waste all your time on sentimental mushy stuff. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to hope then, or make a wasted effort. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why you’re wasting your talents like this,” the general said one night over dinner. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was an urgency about the dreams that suggested she could waste no time. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Machines eliminated this waste of time and manpower. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’d be a shame to waste such a pretty dress” is all I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you have wasted your time and effort,” he said sternly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I hope you didn’t waste time down there acting the hero!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They waste away the morning in bed, watching Mel and Sue squawk over tea cakes on Henry’s laptop, listening to the rain slow to a drizzle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t waste her time worrying about someone who clearly had no interest in her beyond the ridiculous competition. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thus, when someone got killed, as Curt Lemon did, his body was not really a body, but rather one small bit of waste in the midst of a much wider wastage. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can't make myself get hungry, so I'm going to be good, even though it is kind of nice to just check out and get wasted. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Need to turn some lights on,” Helen murmured when she came into the living room; but Ralph said she was wasting electricity. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you think sending me a catalog would be a waste of paper. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

General Dreedle had wasted too much of his time in the Army doing his job well, and now it was too late. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

No energy was wasted on bravado or idle threats. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s the only thing that makes me feel like I'm not a waste of space. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but music is forbidden in Islam. It’s a waste of time and has no benefit. Instead of filling her head with music, she should focus on memorizing Quran.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Tony’s business interests are diverse: waste management, luxury auto exports, pharmaceuticals, etc. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the manure would become a waste product. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m going no matter what, so you better not waste it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had found the boy in squalid conditions, wasting away in an orphanage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What prankster would waste his money like that? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This whole trip had been a waste of time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kennedy has a small tantrum because we don’t have time to wait for a fresh batch, and the whole ride back she whines about how she’s wasting her calories on something she doesn’t really want. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now that Longridge had his conviction to work on he wasted no time. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the time and money wasted on political posturing, the lives lost in wars, the populations abused by despots—all gone the moment the Thunderhead was handed power. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Gillian won’t speak to me. But I was wasted. Why did you even sneak away with me? What did you think was going to happen? It’s like routine for us, Jules.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Re’lar Ambrose, in the future you will refrain from wasting our time with spurious charges.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or the guy who says it's a crime to waste forests of paper to commemorate something that "never happened." Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ariston, in turn, was something of a reformist within the Stoic school, holding that studies of nature and logic were a waste of time because such truths were fundamentally beyond human understanding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

"Now you're free of illusions," Jack said, pointing to my seed wasting upon the air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No suggestion that he had wasted yet another night risking his life for an ungrateful foreigner who would never be able to repay him—the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle taken to extremes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Missing books? Silly dinosaur video games? Money wasted on talking statues and holograms and secret panels in bookcases that could’ve been more wisely spent on extra copies of popular children’s books?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even if there is a big waste of apples on the ground. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But when we got there, they’d vanished back into the wall like they knew he was coming, like they didn’t want to waste their flying stunts on him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Tomorrow, we must waste no time. By the way, where are you living?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all wasted five seconds staring blankly back at him. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Things must not go wrong, this is my chance, and I shall not waste it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Some could not walk; others were as thin and wasted as Hari was; some had terrible sores and deformities. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They overpowered the alliance’s main fighting force on August 20, 1794, at what is known today as Fallen Timbers, and for three days after the victory, laid waste to Indigenous houses and fields. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But once again I had to accept the fact that I shouldn’t be wasting my time or energy hoping anyone would listen to my reports. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spider had strung a web between a wall and the bucket of waste. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every little bit of food wasted is money wasted. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"All that time I wasted making war when I could have been growing beautiful things." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If DeNice and Beebi wouldn't have been standing there, Eleanor might have kept some of the pads, the ones that didn't have any writing on them, because, God, what a waste. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got the look about ya. Pathetic. Stupid. Weak in the knees. Demons wouldn’t even bother with someone like you. An utter waste of flesh.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The only pathogens in this waste are the ones I already have. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explored this room, not hastily, then, like a hotel room, wasting it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Dad said 93 Little Hobart Street was such a dump that we shouldn’t waste time or energy on it that we could be devoting to the Glass Castle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went first, kicking in the mirrored door at the bottom rather than wasting time sliding it open. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“What a waste,” grumbled Oliver, who also took macarons very seriously. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We had to share, but we knew enough not to waste food. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope they didn’t waste them on mindless tasks: kindling the evening fire and cutting vegetables for dinner. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m always okay. You’re the one who lets her get to you too easily. You’re just wasting energy if you try to get her to understand anything. It’s easier to not care.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She who sat here before me had not wasted her time, as I was doing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had wasted a question and I had no idea how long the bogweed scent would last. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he woke up, Mr. Potter noticed the remote’s disappearance and wasted hours searching for it, cursing up a storm the whole time. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Oh, there was the door to mend and the mess to be cleaned up, and the wasted porridge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled like the brewery, and the water like human waste. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, he didn’t want his hard work to be wasted,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not enough to block out Mr. Lawson: “By the following evening he was no longer fully conscious, and so wasted that his spine could be felt through his stomach.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said Antoinette, “you and this council of the mouse. It is a waste of the time in my opinion. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The waste of such precious material cut Jethro like a knife. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I commit it to memory; I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken, and useless. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You are wasting my time with ‘if, if, if.’” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, you don’t wanna waste your evening messing with that character laying in the street. He’s some kinda bum. You look like you could use you some fun.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, you’re to wear these only when the rain comes, so don’t waste the leather in the dry times.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be a woman, to have a daughter in starvation time was a waste enough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon graduating with his degree in philosophy, Cabot Searcy was told by his father that he couldn’t have wasted more money or time if he’d tried. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Gay fumed as she cleaned up the waste. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I really had been wasting my time here. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was holding the wad of paper towel in his outstretched hand like it was nuclear waste. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Why the devil do I see these things five seconds after it’s all over? Mike, we’ve wasted hours.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As everybody we see there is dead we do not waste any more time, but report the affair at the next stretcher-bearers’ post. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laugh, float, waste my mother’s bath beads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What does she think, that the Walton family is living in some hidden room in the back of the store, in the utmost frugality, and likely to be ruined by $21 worth of wasted labor? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I hadn’t wasted the last couple of nights shutting him out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A day? I can’t waste a valuable day. I have places to go and people to see.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's really nothing," she reported bravely, "just some sort of wasting disease. But pity me not, I shall live out my remaining time enjoying each precious day to the full." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over half the lunch was thus wasted when Maurice changed the topic to Rosy and droned on and on about her lack of cooperation. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

De Wet wasted no time in getting down to business. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m not mad at Garrett, because I know this is not about him intentionally wasting water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“A fraction of a degree warmer or cooler and the whole thing would have been a waste of our time.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Stevens family does not let Saturdays go to waste. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t see the point in wasting time—mine and other people’s—on something that’s never going to happen.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could not flush because there was nothing to flush, it would be a waste of water. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon crept close as Lyra looked down on the poor wasted face. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I had hoped you might know better than to waste your devotion on the things of this world, but apparently I was mistaken. I am ashamed of you.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We want smoke. And you go wasting your time. You roll rocks." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They end up in a prison dungeon where their bodies are covered in scalding tar before they’re forced to eat their own waste. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And yet, she reminded herself, Agatha Swanburne would not waste a moment worrying about things that couldn’t be helped, or events that hadn’t happened yet, or subjects that were otherwise useless to dwell upon. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She looked belligerently at Trotter, but Trotter was so busy making the meat platter and the salad bowl switch places that the expression was wasted. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

For Gey, the rotation was crucial: he believed that culture medium needed to be in constant motion, like blood and fluids in the body, which flow around cells, transporting waste and nutrients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the rest room, I saw the remains of a loaf of French bread lying on the floor beside the waste bin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little messy to get at them, and Mr. Coggin, the movie cameraman, was sick in a waste basket. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I'll close my eyes, too, try to sleep away the sick feeling, the whisper that I am a waste of her time, her money, her effort. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden it seemed such a waste of time to heat up a comb and straighten your hair before you went to school. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As Thomas drew, he started to feel a tickle of panic, a sick feeling that what they were doing was a complete waste of time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“My words are wasted on this young ox! You will learn the truth when you go to camp. Perhaps your father will claim you. But for now, I must explain the firewood.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her bloodriders would sooner have returned to their great grass sea, even if it meant braving the red waste again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for doing this. I tried to convince my friends, but they said it’s a waste of time.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Each day, she seemed to drift further away, to become more insubstantial; it was as if she had the same peculiar wasting illness that had consumed Minnie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I emerge back into the present to the shrieking of a woman chastising someone over the waste. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So when windy conditions resumed shortly after California arrived in Seattle, Ebright wasted no time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nobody wasted their breath pretending to feel very sad about the Riddles, for they had been most unpopular. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The captains of Redwall wasted no time in making use of the temporary respite. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Whoever came to him suffering, whether from wounded limbs or bodies wasting away with disease, even those who were sick unto death, he delivered from their torment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It scares me that the waste man’s so interested in where we live,” I told Arul that evening as we spread plastic on the ground beneath our straw mats and pillows. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"She does not eat, Missus Thorn. She wastes away. She drinks a little water from time to time." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. This is a waste of time.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In Texas, he’d steal a bottle of Maker’s from the liquor cabinet and get wasted with half the lacrosse team and maybe, afterward, climb through Liam’s window and hope to forget by morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the waste that gets me. The loss of one more living creature. Couldn’t you tell, Isidore? Didn’t you notice the difference?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Don’t waste any more words on the fool, Sam!’ said Frodo. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His bland manner and the knowledge that they had wasted time to see the truth released the anger within me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t waste money on doctors, but if the words came out at all, they came out too thickly for anyone to understand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He might have guessed he would waste his time. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because this is a waste of my time.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And then it hit me: Why am I wasting my time and two good dollars straightening my hair so I can look more white? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There was little forage in the red waste, and less water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This class was a colossal waste of my time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I asked her why she was wasting her candies, she said she was burying them like the box her Mama and PapS had buried in their yard that was bad to touch. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bristled at the hours wasted in Bible study, chapel, and military drill. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had sat here holding blank negatives, masterpieces of human ingenuity wasted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did everybody have to waste precious time by asking questions? Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Not one drop will be wasted! Each of us will promise to squish and squallop and squiggle one thousand children!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He and his teammates had wasted an hour on the lame window idea. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Tally planned to do most of her traveling at night, letting the hoverboard recharge in sunlight, wasting no time. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If you were Lucky Strike, you’d have figured out how to sneak it out, instead of wasting it. Be a big rich man now, owning the beach.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Passing through the village, the stench of rotten flesh and human waste hangs heavily in the air. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But that’s inside our house. The outside one’s for bodily waste, full of quaternary ammonium compound chemicals. You know, like that stinky blue soup at the bottom of a porta potty.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know how long the flare path would stay lit, and didn’t want to waste the light. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid not, my friend. There’s no time to waste. I hate to press you, but you must decide tonight.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tell you what, they don’t waste any time now. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had too much to think about over here to waste time with missing. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a waste of time! Let’s just grab her bag and go!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His father had abhorred waste of any kind, to the point where he complained to Ashima if a kettle had been filled with too much water. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was annoyed at himself for the time he had wasted, wondering about her, when he had so much to do, still. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, we have wasted quite enough time with frogs and foolishness,” Mrs. Grayson said, buttoning up her smiles. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t waste one minute telling everybody that my name was Charlie Reese and please welcome me to their church family. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Said we didn’ have no money to waste on no doctor when it couldn’t do no good. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the past when he walked out like that and sat looking over the country lying in just the faintest visible shape where the lost moon tracked the caustic waste he’d sometimes see a light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“So inefficient, so wasteful of effort, and so utterly exhausting” was the old plow, Temple wrote, “that this deficiency of plowing may rank as mankind’s single greatest waste of time and energy.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

More would be coming in a moment and he would only waste time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had forty-seven rupees tied up in my sari, but I could not waste them on a rickshaw, and anyhow I would not know where to go. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! You knew you were going to Abuja from the beginning so why let me waste my time preparing for you!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That fascination has infested me today like the wood-eating bugs that slowly lay waste to our house. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He had gotten used to it after all these years, but still, there were times when the waste got to him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They’d run out of tissues months ago, and toilet paper was too precious to waste. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of thing I wasted time on in those days when time was so important. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jordie had come home hungry and irritable, frustrated after another wasted day. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“More addictive than most drugs. Sampling a lotus blossom awakens a craving that will never be silenced. Many have wasted their lives pursuing and consuming the petals of those bewitching flowers.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And I won’t have to waste energy being angry because she hardly ever does. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t have left school, but Amá is always talking about how it’s a sin to waste this and that and it feels like a sin to waste a day like this. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We hated to see food go to waste. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sierra was just some kid from around the way; why was a Columbia librarian wasting so much time to dig up papers on some vanished anthropologist for her? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Every day and every hour, every shell and every death cuts into this thin support, and the years waste it rapidly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem frivolous, didn’t seem like the type who’d waste an entire day fretting over her white carpet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I figure she’s got some other reason, but I do not wish to waste time trying to get it out of her, so I just pick up the pad and start to read. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Food should not be wasted on the dying, Your Worship. We do not have enough to feed the living.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their road was only a scar through the waste of thin snow and leafless bushes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, most cars contain nothing but junk, but I manage to acquire a few unexpected assets that would otherwise go to waste. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book and said, “Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to come and get that bird tonight and eat it with my wife on Sunday. What a waste!” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Specially if it is hot weather, my advisement is dont waste no time.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They went into the woods and the man squatted and looked at the gray and wasted figure under the tilted sheet of plywood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When my mother began dropping hints that I would soon be going to school, I vowed never to go because school was a waste of time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you become sick yourself, don’t waste your vomit by sending it overboard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to the waste mart, we stopped by a park where there was a small pond. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s a real paper waste,” I say to him, “because you already gave me one of these.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone dies, and I don’t like wasting energy fretting about certitudes, but Aunt Aggie’s words keep echoing through my brain: whipped to death, took the skin clean off. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Nathan was so scared of the loudness and firmness in Uncle Jet’s voice that he wasted no time slipping out of the truck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Agnes says it likes tomatoes, but it’s not like we can afford to waste tomatoes on a chicken my parents don’t know exists and wouldn’t necessarily want to catch anyway. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There’s something innately bolstering about a person who sees his opportunities as endless, who doesn’t waste time or energy questioning whether they will ever dry up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The master of the Dolphin berated them for wasting his time, and the owner of the Seventh Son accused them of being pirates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Too much time would be wasted if I had to account to Nemur for everything I did. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Have it yore way, but it’s a waste a-time,” Grandpa insisted. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wasted the last weeks of August watching bad cartoons. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two others didn’t waste time with weapons; they lunged for her, hands outstretched—a textbook case of how not to attack. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If he saw sky at all, it was only through the holes in the sides of the crate; everything else was dark and close, smelling of blood and waste. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The afternoon had been wasted on the cat; Ignatius had tried to trap the cat in the bun compartment and take it home for a pet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if I’m just wasting my time in here, and Ren is a giant red herring? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she ran the water, the waste fell straight out onto her shins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn't want everyone to have wasted their time,” she said to Sahil. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The period is almost over and you two dingdongs are wasting time,” Worm says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wounds gave up pus until he wasted away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“But if we stop providing the waste man with stuff every day, he might start paying us less,” Muthu argued. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sound was louder now—a hissing moan that had an almost evil resonance to it—but he didn’t waste time studying it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama wasted no time in packing up their things once the undertaker had left with Aunt Rose’s body. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I am wasting my breath with this one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of wasting so much of the inmates’ time on rec, Larson thought, Sing Sing should put a small library on every gallery so that inmates could sit in their cells and read. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right with me, but it’s a waste of a good view,” said the General. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I flushed without fear of falling into a pit of smelly waste. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Train fare was not expensive, but Mama insisted that they should not waste money. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was caffeine jittery and surly and perfectly capable of wasting his money. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks we have time to waste,” snorted the major. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She remembered, though, that when Uncle Kufa made training spears for boys, he didn’t waste precious iron. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked willingly to build her a temple, and when it was finished Demeter came to it and sat there—apart from the gods in Olympus, alone, wasting away with longing for her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would I waste time asking ‘How are you?’ Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was no recognition in those fierce eyes, and his son did not even waste a look. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t waste my time worrying about him.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then he added, “I will throw the water on the earth when I am finished and it is not all waste.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re thanking God the waste man took away everything we had?” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She thought too many tests were a waste of valuable learning time—my kind of teacher. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had no real desire to waste my time throwing balls at bottles to win cheap prizes, but Audrey refused to let me spend another Friday night wallowing alone in my room. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When you see somebody wasted on crack it even looks like they got AIDS. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Almost without exception, wrote Snow, "his colleagues thought, and still think, that he wasted the second half of his life." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hell, we only got half a hour for lunch. Who wants to waste time washing hands? Drink up, new girl.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell that spoiled brat to come and spend a day in the hospital with me. We’ll see if he still wants to waste his time on pamphlets and speeches,” he said to Alba. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little time to waste by having him come off the campaign trail to celebrate Malia’s birthday, and he couldn’t slip out of voters’ view on what was the country’s most symbolic holiday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Out the window, beyond the curtains, the flame atop the waste stack, high in the distance, flaps and shivers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kenyon doubted it; he could not conceive of ever wanting to waste an hour on any girl that might be spent with guns, horses, tools, machinery, even a book. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am the biggest, effing waste of nothing known to man. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t waste one minute I had with him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing at the camp is wasted, especially water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since coming to power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis wasted no time in consolidating control, silencing their opponents, and beginning the campaign to reestablish Germany as a dominant world power. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s stupid. A waste of my time and yours.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was the figure Prince Odysseus found— wasted by years, racked, bowed under grief. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time I had a sense of how wasted I really was: I was more exhausted than I’d ever been in my life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Pax lay still while the smaller fox sniffed and licked him, too weak to waste energy batting him away. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, he winked and said in a loud voice, “Of course no dozd would waste his time on a car as ugly as my brother’s.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fine; thus they are spared much waste and madness; but what is left, in somer? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Against the flat, wasted, dyed hair these orange shoots were like life returning to a scorched landscape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the engines did not waste shot upon the indomitable wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There are no boats docked by the pier, which is a huge waste, like an empty parking lot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The waste mart man lumbered out of his shack and took in the scene. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Circle Justice has proven to be a waste of time. It’s time for Cole to face real consequences.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

By our language, which was both hard and wistful, we transformed the bodies into piles of waste. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He considered the keeping of birds a terrible and unsanitary waste of time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead of abundance it was a holiday of waste. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I didn’t even have to waste an arrow.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me once that “youth is wasted on the young” and said it was a shame that other people his age had a fear of computers. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s last gift to her had been a second chance at life, and that gift couldn’t be wasted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever I say that she mm-hmms it away and tells me not to waste her time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No more wasting precious seconds on either of you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“That every second I waste means another Abnegation dead and another Dauntless made into a murderer? I’ve realized that. Now it’s your turn.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I won’t waste your time,” “You aren’t wasting it yet,” he said as he climbed down the ladder, wiping his hands on his shirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Normally, it's not an ideal way to grow crops, because it spreads disease: Human waste has pathogens in it that, you guessed it, infect humans. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They draped these over the balky apparatus and localized the radiation source to Kamen’s fly, which evidently had collected a heavy burden of waste radio-phosphorus from Kamen’s work for John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She knew Jen was probably looking for her — who would want to waste a moon like that? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Wine would need to serve, though he saw no sense in wasting a good vintage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Was Hall really an American double-agent, feeding false data to the Soviets in order to make them waste their time and resources on bomb designs that wouldn’t work? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to tell them not to waste their time. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, I heard them tumble from the trees, and it seemed a waste to let them rot under the branches when we could be enjoying them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But all those wasted years! Did you go on a cruise, look for exciting young men, buy new clothes...?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

With her penlight clamped between her teeth, she started up, wasting no time. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They left ducks on the pond—runners on base—in the third and fourth, and against the Renegades, you best not waste scoring opportunities, because it’s going to come back to haunt you. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Dancing? Probably a waste of time. How much is it gonna cost me?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to waste more time at Roland Park Middle.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But it was too good a word to waste, and that’s why the particles became known as Dust.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Circling the lake, Norman Bowker remembered how his friend Kiowa had disappeared under the waste and water. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hammer turned out to be a waste of two or three good pounds, because there appear to be no nails in the mud-and-thatch town of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waste turns to raw ammonia, which blinds you and almost literally rips your nose off your face. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I looked down the hole of the latrine I noticed a couple of little bags like the one I held floating on the dark smelly waste at the bottom. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was going to ask how, but there was no time to waste. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

So I determined to waste no time in leaving the city. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I cried as if every other thing I’d cried for in my life had been a waste of crying. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A wasted woman, the boy’s mother perhaps, watched fearfully from the shadows. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago newspapers wasted little time before they pointed the finger of blame at her. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I understood: No use wasting good lungs on a hopeless case. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Between the waste heaps and the mist, there lay the first town of the dead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now it was even more unbearable, because every minute I wasted in school was another minute in which I failed to find her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Grandma always said not to waste time with the little stuff.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And how close she had come to wasting that life as a playwright! Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This process wasted fuel, and we were running short of that, and we wanted to save what was left to get back down into a lower orbit after we had finished with this Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama wanted to go instead of him because I was a waste of Father’s time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way she was going to let that sacrifice go to waste. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It seemed a waste of a good afternoon to sit in church for a silly old brooch, which was not only not gold but was too old for me to wear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste your tears . . .” “Not cry? We’re on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside . . . Do you understand? Inside. How could I not cry?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked around, then ran under the other train, dodging the splatters of waste. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The closer I get to the rim the less time I'll waste going around it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy hasn’t wasted any time in ingratiating himself,” Kainene said in his ear. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I hope your savages do not share your reluctance, else we've wasted our good steel on them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, but we don’t have any time to waste.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reported “serious confusion,” “misguided research,” and millions of wasted dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“She is not making this work. She is not in this work, so why do you waste your time and everyone else’s?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A length of pink ribbon was woven in and out all around the top of the hem, wasted, pure waste where no one would ever see it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew it had all been a waste. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I worked hard to make that water, and the last thing I'm going to do is waste it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He paused the tape, like he didn't want to waste this song as background music. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Frankly, the more I read about the philosophers of ancient Greece, the more I think her life is a waste. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need anyone! Especially you, wasting my time and money moping around, crying, thinking of no one but yourself.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We’ve cleaned enough. Let’s go outside. Let’s go to the park. It’s too pretty a day to waste.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cake had taken time and thought, and sugar we didn’t have leave to waste. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But like every other bit of “waste” on this farm, Joel regards chicken guts as a form of biological wealth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“He only said he didn’t think Harry was a waste of space!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Part of me felt like I was wasting the coach’s time with my request for a lesson, but I pushed those feelings aside, because I needed to be in this safe space again. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My roommate’s attention shifted; he wasn’t going to waste his time trying to convince me to get up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Get another locker assigned, find new books, get going— don’t waste time brooding or taking the hurt so deep inside. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now it's almost three already and I've wasted these hours and it's becoming difficult to breathe because six thirty is no longer far in the future. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Your spirit indeed is strong, but your body wastes away. Why do you not eat?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The water carried the blood down the drain, where the waste water would be cooked in heated tanks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing out there! We have no bullets to waste!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she went I’d get to ride on her lap, so I said that to him, too, I was going to waste his time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell engulfed her next—the odor of sweat and fear, of body wastes and hopelessness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to be at that house by nine sharp and there was no time to waste. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold, and meadows of asphodel, presumably strange, pallid, ghostly flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He has disappeared," Brother Jack said, "disappeared! So don't waste time with superfluous questions. You weren't sent for for that." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kalinda then takes my arm and acts like we’re the oldest of friends, sweeping me away from the room, and she wastes no time at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was a bit wasted,” he says, then laughs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance down into it: human waste and vomit sloshing together. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually he smiled again and said: 'As I say, I'm not going to waste my time on our French friend over there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to waste a moment, but she fishes her phone from her pack. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste your time on me!” she said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The best of me is sucked out and wasted. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For the past couple of years I’d avoided climbing those stairs, afraid of running into his wasted mother or her wasting absence in equal doses. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I’m wasting my life in Ojo de Agua.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prying him away from his job hunt wouldn’t be easy, so I couldn’t waste what would probably be only one opportunity to help him. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Momma pulled herself back from being ten feet tall with eight-foot arms and said, “You’re welcome for nothing, you varlet, I wouldn’t waste a killing on the likes of you. ” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m extra wired, wanting to play it, especially as a Decker, since its about wasted opportunities, empty lives, and time dying. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Waiting for him to waste away and die would require no effort on my part. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then Malcolm tried to strike a course across the open waste of sweeping water and made hardly any progress. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He explained that he needed to take moving pictures of five or six operations, all of the same type, so that he could sort out the good motions from the wasted motions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a waste of time and energy to teach you this stuff when you’re never going to get the chance to use it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I’m the one wasting energy, suppressing memories, words. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be afraid. You are not a heretic. Report what you have learned, and waste no more time.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

You could even reclaim a hazardous waste dump. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My disappointing search taught me that, without the blessing of vodka, tomato juice is a complete waste of time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a waste of money. The only people who call are bill collectors anyway.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"This is for yellow- spotted lizards. I wouldn't waste a bullet on you." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a waste,” Ava said, ticking her tongue against her teeth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re delusional. Now let’s not waste any more time. I have a deadline.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were indeed coming, with Hymir at their rear, urging them on: all the giants of that part of the world, a many-headed monstrous bunch, the giants of the waste, misshapen and deadly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It seems such a waste, yet there is nothing else to do.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He had wasted no time in currying favor with the new king. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She knew very well that Mary Poppins never wasted time in being nice. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Mother Ermentrude did not even consult the bishop, but wasted no time in expelling her from our midst,” she goes on. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The Russians are on top of us. There’s no time to waste.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare also wrote: ‘I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.’” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the women clutched their baskets and peered over the gate and muttered about these relief people wasting time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When you leave tissues in a doctor’s office or a lab, you abandon them as waste, and anyone can take your garbage and sell it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was focused on not wasting any of the opportunities I now had, but sometimes I had to remind myself just to breathe. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I knew even then he had a nature that did not waste anything. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I follow him back right now? Playing it cool seems pointless since he’s leaving at the end of the summer. No time to waste.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On the old-fashioned farm, there is really no such thing as waste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was more left to explore, but suddenly it seemed like a waste of time; it was impossible that anyone could still be living here, even the most misanthropic recluse. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He took my presence for granted, the same way he might’ve sheltered a stray cat—no wasted sighs or pity—and there was never any talk about it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest she sold, to gather the wealth she had wasted on the Purebom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After the assassination, Big Ma told Pa not to waste his vote on the Democrats. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“She’s come this far, and we can’t waste all this driving. Besides, we have to take your cousin back to her own house in Los Angeles. We have to drive to Los Angeles anyway.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what about the incident two weeks ago? The boy they found in the waste pit.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lady who thinks it's so terrible to waste learning time cutting and gluing paper. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He turned and looked out at the waste of the yard. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

When Langley sponsored a series of computation courses to be held after work and on weekends, Dorothy wasted no time enrolling. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mom has always told me, “We don’t have enough days to waste being upset or sad. You’ve got to be happy and have fun, Anna.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He wastes no more time on chat and shows me what is to occupy me for the next four hours. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

‘We can’t waste time with that rubbish,’ the Army General said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,” he remarked one day as he walked dejectedly home from school. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people have had years of their lives wasted in prison—years they would have been free if they had been white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I need to waste breath on threats,” Kaz said. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“A tall figure, all in white with a veil over its face and a lamp in its wasted hand,” went on Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pull had led her through winding side streets rank with the stink of waste and rotting food until she’d found refuge in one particularly small alley filled with old crates she could hide behind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

At the far side, Taran distinguished meager clumps of wasted trees. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to waste my summer painting a church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I waste the days of my suspension on the couch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kamaswami reproached him for not returning immediately, for wasting time and money. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll open them for Bodega, don’t worry. He like gives them crazy cash. It’s a waste of money if you ask me, kid.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dunbar seldom laughed any more and seemed to be wasting away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

What a waste their journey would be if I just settled for a dull, mediocre life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Immediately, her mind filled with images of Montez laid out on a cot somewhere, wasting away as gray-clad soldiers stormed over barricades. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

An outraged Curtis wasted no time in charging the eight new officers heading up the union with insubordination. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And now they were going to waste us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We’d had a fleeting good moment—it wasn’t often Baba talked to me, let alone on his lap—and I'd been a fool to waste it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had no idea what was going on or how she’d gotten this sea of maniacs to listen to her command, but he wasn’t going to waste the opportunity. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Let her go. Better to waste a day than another month. Maybe a little tour of Twelve is just what she needs to convince her we’re on the same side.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We went all the way to a waste mart I’d seen before, but it’s gone—they’ve bulldozed the slums in that part of the city to build a shopping complex.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have a lot of time to waste.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Borkowski, who lived across the street from Raymie and who was very, very old, said that most people wasted their souls. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Is it simply stopped dead in its tracks, lost in humus, wasted? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the Delaware, it was a handy dumping ground for anything and everything—household and human waste, manufacturing rubbish, and debris from the hundreds of ships that visited the city every year. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Coffee was rationed then and to waste it, inexcusable. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I found them, they wasted some time staring at the now silent Alice, then they grumbled because I made them wash. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was still a bit wasted from the after-school drinking binge with the widow, but if my mom noticed, she didn’t mention it. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He says it’s boring and a waste of time, especially gym. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was wasting my time even thinking about it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Now quit wasting my time. I have things to do.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom will like that; she hates to waste things. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Why should I waste my time solving Garrison’s game when I’m fairly certain this girl has already done so? Or is close to completing it, at the very least.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But again, no: Bernard considered that Electro magnetic Golf was a waste of time. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it comes to making money, North Korea is an utter waste of time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Several other opportunities arose for Americans to claim the discovery of dinosaurs but all were wasted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a wind to take him, to kill the Frog and he had wasted time staring. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This colossal waste would later weigh on me heavily. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then we were given the job of seeing that no one wasted time again,” he said, sitting up proudly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had her watch how Romero took the bull away from a fallen horse with his cape, and how he held him with the cape and turned him, smoothly and suavely, never wasting the bull. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

First every kid labels me as a tragic case, now half the teachers'll think I'm a waste of space. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caldwell throws her pen in the air, her mouth all twisted up at me like I’m wasting her time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And a man can’t afford to waste all the good parts, worrying about the bad parts. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt frustrated about wasting so much time and peeved at falling behind everybody else. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, of course. And you made an effective speech. But you musn't waste your emotions on individuals, they don't count." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have studied astrophysics and even waste management systems in space aircraft, but I have never given any thought to the procedure for custody or guardianship of a minor in the state of California. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I don't know if I'm furious that I wasted my first kiss on a smoking racist, or if I'm enraged that he won't apologize, or if I'm mad that it meant so little to him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That can be arranged. Do not waste your worry on its safety. It will be kept as carefully as any book in the Archives.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And I really am sorry. Not because we wasted money, but because we wasted time.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

La Belle Sauvage sped like a dart over the mad river, down towards Port Meadow, towards the wild waste of water that was sweeping through Oxford, towards whatever lay beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Two previous Alaska expeditions had taught me that I couldn’t afford to waste a rare day of perfect weather. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only I have suffered during these long, lonely, wasted years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toxic and hazardous wastes were stored in another: corner of the dump, where you could find old batteries, oil drums, paint cans, and bottles with skulls and crossbones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The guards must’ve been distracted by the laser-tower explosion. Well, let’s not waste the opportunity. They know something’s wrong. We need to get in, grab the Story Box, and get out.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The vine was Tartarian honeysuckle, a weed that grows in waste places and on abandoned ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must waste no time! Even now they come!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was laying waste to the competition in the chess club, but that always happened. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“We shall not waste time looking for evidence as to who betrayed Mandela,” she told the audience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The second thing is: talent is something rare and beautiful and precious, and it must not be allowed to go to waste.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d thought about trying to mess up the VCR, but Abbey said it would be a waste of time. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with us or how much time we had left, but I wasn’t going to waste a second of it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“As far as I’m concerned, he’s a waste of good hair.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

For all I knew, I could be in the waste pit by now. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then he heard it again, rising from a pile of waste papers and soot that had blown against the concrete wall. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today the weather was too fine to waste, the sky rolled out bright as a bolt of blue fabric, the warm breeze combing back the last of the chill. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if I did take on a student—which I haven’t done in years, mind you—I certainly wouldn’t waste my time teaching someone who doesn’t want that scholarship...or have you changed your mind?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were no hidden costs or waste to be disposed of. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, I’m not doing this. I’m not wasting my time searching for some random guy I talked to for five seconds. Okay? Can we just chill?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to catch my breath and I waste more time waiting just to be able to stand up and move on into the afternoon. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were intermittently abundant in the sprawling camp, which used few pesticides, relied on human waste as fertilizer, and supplied no water for cleaning privies or taking baths. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were talking about letters that morning because Calder had groaned about having to write a thank-you note, and said that it was always a waste of time. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Wicked Wizard War feels like such a waste now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

"But her talent was wasted here, because she doesn't only act—she sings beautifully, too." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fadi sighed, wishing his father were with him, but these days Habib was too busy, or too tired, to waste time clicking away with a camera. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"I am a busy man, with no time to waste with childish games." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the microbes include not only disease organisms but those that destroy waste matter, make soils fertile, and enter into countless biological processes like fermentation and nitrification. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long such an unwonted drain to the head. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He wiped his mouth, blotted his sweaty brow from one wasted temple to the other with his sleeve, and gave me a quick glance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have wasted time fainting, just gotten busy arranging the exorcism. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wasted a few moments and some muscular power in an effort to move the blocking barrier. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Lawrence reasoned, however, that although domestic sources of uranium ore were practically nonexistent, uranium was plentiful in another form: tons of uranium tailings piled up as waste at Oak Ridge and Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I never regarded our time together as wasted or unproductive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had a sinking feeling that it was a wasted attempt. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had started out much earlier than usual this morning, thinking to make up for the day wasted yesterday by rain. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fischer was the last climber up the rope, and he looked extremely wasted. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be stupid. I wouldn’t waste my time on anything like that.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running the Maze seemed like such a waste of time compared to figuring out the code. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

‘You knew I couldn’t help you any more. You should’ve found another way to keep going with the statue. But you wasted three days watching over me. Why?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The book of matches had skidded further, near the mast, and he found them only when he’d wasted moments crawling under the table to its other side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wetness against her skin was very pleasant, but she couldn’t waste time enjoying it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, like I said, I think it’s tragic that you all are wasting your summer away. I didn’t grow up in New York,” Dad says. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

"The gods must have been mad to waste manhood on the likes of him, and I must have been mad to demand his release." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He crushed the paper into a hard wad and tossed it into the waste basket. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Searle would waste his time talking to me about it all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The waste didn’t matter; like everything else, the thing ran on free gas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So let’s just say I’m not proud of how I acted, and I’m sure I wasted some time, but I really couldn’t think what else to do. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the spectators, she noticed, were not of the city: she saw sailors off trading ships, merchants come by caravan, dusty men out of die red waste, wandering soldiers, craftsmen, slavers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We finally heard Miss Love pour her dirty water out of the washbowl into the waste pot on the floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Except I’m predestined to lose because my resolve is weak, and now I’m starting to feel like I have to make this wasted study time worth his while. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each of them knew that a defining moment in his life was nearly at hand; none wanted to waste it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Why waste time “playing,” as I’d been ordered, when I could spend some valuable time with Granddaddy? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s Edward. He’s gorgeous, of course, but don’t waste your time. He doesn’t date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Under the beating sun, their bodies blistered, and soon they were so wasted away that even sitting was agony. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘He is bold and cunning. Even now he plays a game with peril and wins a throw. Hours of my precious time he has wasted already. Down, snake!’ he said suddenly in a terrible voice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

By then, she was no longer willing to waste time on Gallup’s false theory. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I told you it was a waste of time. Can’t you stay awake for five minutes? Must you go to sleep on me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We refuse to waste our energies and yours in premature and ill-considered actions. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time is precious, she says, and it’s rude to waste someone else’s. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The latest outbreak was allegedly the result of human waste contaminating a local water supply in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But they’d sat her down in the living room and put it bluntly: this art thing was a waste of time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make sense for a man so concerned with saving money to be wasting a car like that. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s set his alarm for eight o’clock, not wanting the day to go to waste. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Why would Byron waste four good cookies on me? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never wanted to give her a reason to think I was wasting her time or that I didn’t know how to work hard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I also didn’t want my mom to think she’d wasted her time bringing me all the way out here. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They could not afford to waste their powder and bullets. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Look at her, making eyes at Fred Carter, not wasting any time. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papito grunted that school was a waste of time and money. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aunt thought that this was a waste of time, but she was not going to miss any chance of shouting, and so she came too. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

After the website he’d spent a fortune to get running had failed to do anything but waste his time, he began to read book after book on missing children. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was pitiful, foul, her smile a jagged white tear in the firelight: waste. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took part in the great Calydonian Hunt, when the King of Calydon called upon the noblest in Greece to help him kill the terrible boar which was laying waste his country. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve wasted almost the entire day,” said the Englishman, sitting down with the boy near one of the wells. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brick and them got all puffed up and proud, thinking T was armed and ready to waste Jack Franklin. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She stared at her face in the mirror, thinking angrily that all these skin creams were a waste of money, they never did any good. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He fought off a cough, focused on swallowing without wasting a drop. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the tree he found a waste of bracken, six foot high. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never one to let precious time go to waste, he typed furiously on his laptop. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I hate for my talents to go to waste." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste land. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said: “Why I got to handwash when the power washer gone do the job? That’s the biggest waste a time I ever heard of.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t actually forbid us to peel our apples or waste the cores, but he kept referring to the matter so as to let us know that he had noticed what we were doing. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took away the waste bucket Matt had been forced to use since he arrived. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re so frugal with things here, waste is practically a criminal activity. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And as a black teacher, it really bothers me to see bright African-American young men like Andy waste their potential. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like doing business with rude kids who don’t reply to me,” the waste man growled. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

How I wasted them, those rooms, that freedom from being seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But prudence warned me neither to waste the time nor weaken my resolve by too much thought So I reached into my pocket and drew forth the small vial. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But, as it turned out, he had wasted his breath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“One of you gonna unlock these, or are you just going to stand there wasting daylight?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But this was different, and I wanted to tell Ms. Faraci not to waste her time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It seemed such a waste buying new underclothes for Clarice that I put the catalogue away in a drawer and never wrote to the shop after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She stooped to pick up the bigger pieces and drop them in the waste can beneath the sink. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is one way a cook celebrates the ingre-dients, by wasting as little as possible and making the most of whatever the food has to offer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s always going to be someone kicking you down so they can climb higher. It’s just human nature. Why waste your time trying to change the system when you can just game it?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Hey, man, come celebrate with us and quit wasting time with her,” Drew slurred, slamming a can of beer against my chest. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

So I try to change the subject, because I don’t want to waste the little time I get with Dad being upset. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I still love you, Madeline. And you still love me. You have your whole life ahead of you. Don’t waste it. Forgive me.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have time to waste with people like Danny O’Brien. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Heavily weighed down by the wood on my back, branches poking maddeningly, I had burned almost all of the fuel not to waste strength lugging it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where were you, Kaz? I wouldn’t have been in the stairwell if I hadn’t wasted time looking for you. Why didn’t you meet me on the landing?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The argument was based on something so trivial it didn’t seem worth wasting a single word on it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There are no pesticides, no artificial fertilizer, no pollution, and no extra waste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I start to put the booklet back, telling myself I’m not writing a book about Southern legislation, this is a waste of my time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Still more than three hours to waste before I have to leave for my appointment with Dr. Zimmer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even as it besieged Boston, the virus also spread down the eastern seaboard, laying waste as far as Georgia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I told him this was a waste of time. They said Virginia, not West Virginia.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I hate to see food wasted too, ma’am.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no time to waste, they threw caution aside. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She did not want that money to go to waste. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I get up to sort my lunch trash into the recycling, compost, and waste cans. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but it’s such a distraction. And if it doesn’t work out, then it was a waste of time.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The landing site was at the near edge of the great desolate region, a peat-marsh too boggy to be farmed or settled, and now in mid-Irrem a flat frozen waste many feet deep in snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed and plopped down on the first step, worried we’d made our way into another dead-end, boring, waste of time, dusty mudhole of a town, with another move not too far off. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I can hear him yelling at me, but I don't dare waste time looking back. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

How they torture their captives, behead them, or crack their skulls with axes so as not to waste their precious ammunition. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been brought up to know that what God hates as much as anything is waste. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He knew that water was no small matter, and that they’d all have died without his gift, so he didn’t tend to waste much regret over not having Skathis’s power. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Shady tossed a block of scrap wood into an empty waste can, causing a big clang that echoed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It just seems like a waste of time.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I have never known anyone who would even venture to stick his toe in its polluted brown waters, which seethe with sewage, industrial waste, and deadly insecticides. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I was back in the Crips I wouldn’t even waste my time on no punk.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have time to waste; we all knew the PSFs well enough to know that there was a chance they would double back and check for survivors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I felt I had no time to waste. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, let’s not waste our time with that!” cried Maria, throwing her arms around him and giving him a big kiss. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure? Each one of these is for more than this place is worth. We’re paying on all these? That’s a waste of money.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They did not wring the necks of the wounded in the field, for that would waste time, and the wringmaster was holding a stopwatch and calling the seconds. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I certainly didn’t want to waste time pulling back in and forcing her out. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As I suspected, he was not the sort to waste time on words when action was wanted. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, a spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Tell her not to bother. They’re only keeping me for forty-eight hours,” Dad said, “to, quote, teach me a lesson. Talk about a waste of tax dollars!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The same ladies who left you to get wasted?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I guess I wasted 2 hours last night counting every word in that stupid anthology book. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She fought against them, wasting her strength, exhausting herself in a furious struggle. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already told you. He’s done for. But if you want to waste your money on a doctor to tell you that, be my guest.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Time was frozen, so it wasn’t like he was wasting any of it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Everyone’s poems in class were so good. Seems like a waste to just write them and no one hears them except us.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At first she tried to draw a picture on the front, wasting five or six precious sheets of paper in the attempt. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Easy to say, and harder to do. I will not have you wasting the servants' time with this. If you want these pups, you will feed them yourselves. Is that understood?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, farmers waste most of the fertilizer they buy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Luckily I'd made 70 kilometers out of the 90 kilometers I usually do, so it's not too much wasted progress. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Designed to waste energy on nothing but getting their blooms up toward the sun. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She walked up the back steps, from the courtyard where the bakery and adjacent tavern kept their waste bins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But I think for him to let it go to waste—to never share it with the world—is what we should all be really afraid of. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For twenty years this field had embodied all the waste that was Vietnam, all the vulgarity and horror. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t do this halfway. Either go to college, learn something, and change your life, or stay here and be miserable. Don’t move to the next county over to be miserable. You’ll waste your time.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

But above all, their wealth that allowed them to waste was the most enviable. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom once said he was just meeting other addicts and wasting himself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I told them, individually, that they had absolutely no talent worth developing and that they were simply wasting their own valuable time as well as the school’s. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Hana, you eat this while it’s hot. Don’t let it go to waste.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like I’d spent her recovery wallowing in a toxic waste dump. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“That’s the problem with the wasting disease. The whole forest was littered with carcasses that year, just rotting away. We couldn’t do anything with them. Their meat and hides were useless.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What you’re after is a horse that works hard and doesn’t waste time looking at flowers.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, I hate to say it, but it's probably a waste of your time to try to figure out who I am by looking at the bands on people's T-shirts. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

With an extra blanket that you brought from home, you could then sleep comfortably on top of your bed and not waste time making it in the morning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That this is all a waste of time and money. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They refused to waste their time on a bankrupt theory that would destroy their reputation as code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“None taken. Here, Elijah, drink this. Your friend ain’t getting nothing to eat nor drink till he learn to act right in school, and I hate seeing this glass of milk go to waste.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I summon Angelina and Mother Ermentrude to help lift her wasted body, and while they hold her head, I pour a trickle of broth down her throat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I went back to my street corner and proceeded to waste three hours begging, not gaining so much as a thin shim for my ef- forts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His body was withered and wasted away by it all. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Over the gray waste of water Malcolm paddled all the next day while Lyra cried fretfully and Alice lay indifferently in the bow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Tomorrow, we must waste no time. By the way, where are you living?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why must he waste his days listening to old men speak of things he Only half understood? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What a pitiful waste of a peculiar life.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Angie grabbed them and wasted no time opening the bag and removing a sugar cookie decorated like a Christmas tree. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a joke, Karen. I bought this book for a quarter at the Catholic Bazaar and I’ve got to use it or Mom will say it’s a waste of money.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some physicists thought that atoms might be cube shaped, because cubes can be packed together so neatly without any wasted space. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My stomach was sick and wasted but it desperately wanted fuel and the banana stayed down. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was truly waste matter, with no nutrients in it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Master Ellemire wouldn’t “waste their guest’s time” by sending in someone so “manifestly unqualified,” and Lazlo couldn’t find it in himself to argue on his own behalf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I hate to waste a snowball, but I suppose there’s always the chance you’ll hit something. Fine, you can throw some.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And we were kind of right, weren’t we? He wouldn’t be giving you lessons if he thought you were a goner, wouldn’t waste his time — he must think you’ve got a chance!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She worked carefully, wasting little of the vegetable, making a neat pile of ends on the table before her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his questions she gave proper answers; to do otherwise would be waste motion, and dissipated energy, and foreign to a good cat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She downed the glass of milk and set it on the nightstand, so that in the morning the scythe would see she had brought it and that it hadn’t been wasted. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t want to be wasted when I get to Jill’s, and you can’t be either. You promised me. Seriously.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Too clever to waste away in that backwater, he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their conversation is confusing, but I can’t waste time now trying to determine what their bizarre words mean. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s been three weeks, and he’s wasted all his money. No more. I should have done this on day one.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken the child with her into the wastes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas was surprised Minho was wasting time sulking, especially with the code possibilities. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They had no time to waste, and it would hurt Booth too much to dismount and put weight on his foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, it doesn’t smell like human sewage; it smells of human sewage, because whenever it rains, the sewers overflow and the collective waste of Central Indiana dumps directly into the river. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So Voldemort went off to Borgin and Burkes, and all the staff who had admired him said what a waste it was, a brilliant young wizard like that, working in a shop. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was grief over the waste of life, the stunned wonder at the ways of God, and the restoration of order in nature at the graveyard. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made the choice himself, just don’t ever waste it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’d brought a packet of three pens this time, but I only took one back down with me—in case he still took as much pleasure as he had last trip in wasting ink. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed the whole place was built on waste from the Gulf of California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just thinking I’m wasting my breath when Natalie starts to take off her suit. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I was passing the broken church I heard a solitary singing voice: “Ah, dear God, how can this be That all things wear and waste away!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out to his garage, and as soon as I saw his eyes I knew: He was wasted. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a waste for Booth to sell the carriage, and Spangler tells him so. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some are so old or wasted by illness, drugs, or drink that I can’t place them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Dad happened by he’d turn the light off, muttering about wasted electricity. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste: the portal yawned void. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And beautiful: need not have withered her nights and wasted her body on a bony, shivering wretch. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

David said the Divergent are dying and someone has to stop it, because that's a waste of our best genetic material. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Sterling says jealousy is a waste of energy, that I should focus on what I have, not what I don’t. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Whoever built this city loved to waste metal. They aren’t called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty discovered them.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I briefly considered searching for a key—it had to be here somewhere—but I could’ve wasted hours looking, and the lock was so decayed that I wondered if the key would even work anymore. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Most new words are made up from other, earlier words; language-making is a conservative process, wasting little. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dunwoody did this Why am I wasting my life? expression. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He is conserving his energy, none of this flying around looking for food and wasting effort. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as Swift saw it, high pay was waste, a problem to be solved. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying, think of all their extra studies they been missing out on. It’s a waste.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the chest came to land and they got out, to see no sign of life anywhere, only a wild waste of waters, Zeus pitied them and drained off the flood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What a waste of time! All this over a few swastikas!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Once safely out of view of the village, he wasted no time in getting back to the thicket. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She made up her so-called wasting disease, I call that crazy. Nothing was wrong with her legs until the explosion in the Chinese restaurant." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mama bird doesn’t know all her work is a waste of time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Can you bring them to us so we don’t have to waste time going back to the limousine?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not wasting a steak on that," his grandpa said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was now wasting valuable seconds, burning away whatever lead I still had on the Sixers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His hands moved deftly, with never a wasted cut; the work had to be done quickly, before the stink of blood brought shadowcats down from the heights. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re not getting both. It’s a waste of money. You can get the notebooks with the hole punched paper. Then you can pull it out if you need it.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Without your help recycling waste, our environment would be much filthier.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“A very special place,” Caul said, “where not a drop of your peculiar souls will go to waste.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Artemis did not waste any time attempting to force open the door. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"I got lousy grades," I said, feeling as if I had already wasted my entire life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Well, he felt he might have been more than an average student if he had contributed to books a fraction of the time he’d “wasted” on sports. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ike deeper they rode into the waste, the smaller the pools became, while the distance between them grew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He said to himself, Jasus, I have all this gas in my system and ’tis a great pity to waste it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Much like incense today, spices were thought of as having almost mystical, spiritual qualities. source that allowed Europeans to drain swamps and make use of lands that had previously gone to waste. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In those cases she would drink it herself, or give it to Rowan, because Scythe Faraday made it clear that nothing in his household was ever wasted. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He moved efficiently, a learned behavior that wasted no movement. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This was a journey they could not take together, and the attempts they would make to stop him would waste valuable time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Croker’s dæmon, a green woodpecker, drilled vigorously into a waste piece of pine with a sound like a machine gun. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The trip might be a waste of time,” I said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Reyna and the coach experienced his journey through Tartarus, his capture by the giants, his days wasting away inside that bronze jar. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

You could see in his eyes how wasted he already was from the whiskey. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was richer because she had something to waste. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parent-condoned sibling cruelty was a rare gift, and not to be wasted. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“We just wasted all that gas. Why are you smiling?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will begin it tomorrow, and that is all I have to say about the apprenticeship. Do not waste your breath arguing.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A minute without an IV or not talking about a next step is a minute wasted. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“No need for us to waste a life getting rid of her. By sunset tomorrow this ground can be ours and she will be gone. She will be in the Field, waiting for the beasts.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beatrice and I don’t correspond unless there's a major event in the family. Writing letters is a waste of time,” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I just forgot whether I gave them to you or not. No sense in wasting them.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The front room, or parlor, is not wasted either, waiting for a wedding reception to be worthy of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No part of the big grass went to waste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath one of these makeshift tents, she saw her baby, Tariq’s baby, its temples wasted, its jaws slack, its skin mot- ded, bluish gray. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Believing that higher education was a waste of time for girls, he refused to pay a penny toward it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some people wasted on for quite a few years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything is collected and reused: old clothes become scarves, old food is dried and saved, and human waste is remixed as topsoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no way to squirm away from his own waste. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know the best way to go about it, and wasted several matches before he managed to coax the flames into life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first row seemed to have more headroom and breathing area, but the second and third rows beneath them were already slimy with waste. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Amma hugs me, but she says, "When you get out, don't waste a minute looking back. Get ahead, that's what you need to do. Make me proud of you." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

What a giant waste of money, time, and resources. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I had begged to go, promising I would get up early and stay up late to do my work, but Maa said school was a waste for girls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pay two hundred and forty dollars each, the kind of price you can get away with charging people whose savings accounts would go to waste otherwise. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had sacrificed energy to recruit writers who subscribed to a revolutionary point of view, and now my feelings fought against the waste and meaninglessness to which my efforts were being reduced. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wingman left me to get wasted too.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was the dream I cherished when I entered prison at the age of forty-four, but I was no longer a young man, I was seventy-one, and I could not afford to waste any time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the concert tickets, the private jet, and eight hours wasted online shopping, they weren’t even halfway. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

His sister wasted no time trying to twist the situation to her advantage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“He says he doesn’t have money to waste paying for you to get what he calls a useless white man’s education,” my mother replied. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she blundered into a side channel and wasted hours working her way back out. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretending to read over the notes for my English exam, but really I’m trying not to think about my wasted first kiss with stupid Adam. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The winded boys didn’t have to waste any more breath communicating what came next. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rays from the lantern fell on his wasted face, on the tight yellowed skin, on the lips split with fever, on his limbs which were like a child’s. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a man has looked upon such massive waste of life as I have witnessed in these three battles, the presumption to consider his own little personal dreams becomes a matter of supreme egotism. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I got closer, I overheard them talking about how someone named Susan got wasted the night before and that's why she wasn't there. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The patched places showed up bleak against the wasted pink paint of the barn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

People waste time and wait for the right moment and we don’t have that luxury. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller certainly didn’t waste all his time in meetings running down whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Preparing to tromp out and lay waste to our fair kingdom. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As McCandless gradually stopped rebuking himself for the waste of the moose, the contentment that began in mid-May resumed and seemed to continue through early July. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could not have been plainer that he thought this lesson was a waste of time. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He wore weighted shoes to strengthen his wasted leg muscles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste your breath on questions like that. Just come out and say whatever you want,” he says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was common to hear girls say when they saw Googie preaching with his brothers on a street corner, “Thass a waste of a church boy.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We shall leave them ruined and wasted, broken and shattered, torn in a thousand pieces and scattered to the four winds. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen—I embody—the vision of the dragon: absolute, final waste. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe me, the people who run those places don’t waste any time thinking about animal suffering. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“That art is worth more than every laptop in the computer lab. It was commissioned specifically for us. Personally, I think our donor wasted his money.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My abuelo’s print was very neat and didn’t waste any space. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Soon the dwindling company, following the Isen, turned west and rode through the Gap into the waste lands beyond, and then they turned northwards, and passed over the borders of Dunland. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The latrines had been placed beside the river, so the current would wash away the wastes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Get your brains scrambled, waste all that—" "Wilson." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fancy wasting a pair of Seven League Boots as though they were nothing more than work slippers! The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

We might as well just find some other way to waste our time, because, trust me, it’s over,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They wasted no time on relief or celebration. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wasted time and missed fun because I cared about the wrong things. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Aristide walked away with 67 percent of the vote and wasted no time promising to deal with the vast inequalities of his country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And the woman told the boy to leave, saying she had already wasted too much time with him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven had wasted so much time worrying and being anxious about being a Spare. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A life where his and Luke’s only worry was getting twenty dollars off their parents so they could waste it at Applebee’s after the football game. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She waded through a mixture of old rags, used bandages, the emptied-out waste of the slop buckets. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have enough daily bread, so I won’t waste time on that. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single morsel would be dropped to the ground or go wasted, for it was said that if the food were able, it would weep tears at being misused in any manner. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But Jessica and Angela knew it well, so they didn’t plan to waste time on the picturesque boardwalk by the bay. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I walk into history class, though, all that preparation feels like a total waste. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A poster in the room where Roberta interviewed me warns job applicants not to “waste your time or ours” if you’ve taken drugs within the last six weeks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow. Samantha is wasting her time at that sad excuse of a coffee shop. She can be the Hermione in our trio. Dibs on Harry.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He did not know why Min did not explain things more fully; Tree-ear’s mistakes often cost valuable time or wasted valuable clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Through the bare branches he saw a wild waste of gray water, surging from left to right across the wide open space that had been Port Meadow: he could see the city’s spires beyond it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I found sewing a waste of time, and I had been easing along doing the minimum. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Your meeting is scheduled for Midsummer, and that is scarcely one week from now. We’ve no time to waste.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He spent several precious days happily tinkering with his engine, wasting lovely, almost warm, oyster weather. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, I was so wasted. I don’t remember a thing.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The winter days were short, so there was no time to waste, and rather than walking all the way around the pond, Roz tested its frozen surface to see if it was safe to cross. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hudson, Harriett, and I had the same teacher as everyone else, and yet we’re the only ones from our class wasting away in summer school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Man, I was so wasted. I don’t remember a thing.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled, but everything still seemed to be working, and wasting no more time, Harry pointed his wand straight at Malfoy and shouted, “Rictusempra!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, Cal’s method was a waste of time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And even if I explained it slowly and simply, Papito would most likely brush off plays as a huge waste of time and grunt that I should be doing real work in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bomb fell on a piece of waste ground which was used as a playground and several dozen children were blown to pieces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

How much time I wasted on school and friends instead of being with my grandfather. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Annual plants therefore waste little energy on making inedible wood or fibrous stems, like the body of trees and bushes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows children as young as six or seven whose single mothers have stayed at home and who have had to root through the waste in order to eat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our hardest task is teaching people to count on a future: to plant citrus trees, and compost their wastes for fertilizer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped through the sliding door, and he followed, pulling it shut behind them, hoping to deter any wasted college students from following. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom says Thanksgiving is a big waste of money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Simon. I just watched you pick up a random guy in a gay bar. You’re wearing eyeliner. And you’re completely wasted.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At this those faces, cloaked in desolation upon the waste sea beach, were bared; their eyes turned toward me and the mighty lighting, foreseeing pleasure, one by one. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bella, don’t you dare waste time worrying about me. Your only concern is keeping yourself safe and — please, please — trying not to be reckless.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If he was going to be stuck in the Pipeworks, he would at least not waste the time he had. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why waste a thought upon what such a fellow says?” she cried. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I should waste my time going up any of these little creeks and inlets now that they had found Mrs. DiAngelo downriver. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Garrett confessed what he told Henry, and Henry didn’t waste any time sharpening it into a weapon to use against me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It would waste precious seconds to grab the weapon and load it—seconds when she could take their swords, cut their throats, and vanish into the gardens. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Vonetta went on and on about all the money we were saving and how she made sure Fern and I didn’t waste our money buying candy, airmail stamps, and mooning over boys in Oakland. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Privately, she thought that was yet another result of her mother’s selfishness: she was the one with the drinking problem, so why did Maya need to waste a hour of her week in therapy? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“He hates it, he says. He’s feeling pretty low. He feels he wasted two years reading Freud.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how the Lord God puts up with such waste,” she said grimly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing how long this game might continue, Catelyn wasted no time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Cudgeon? Forgive me, Commander, but I wouldn’t waste my apologies on the lieutenant. He won’t be wasting any on you when he stabs you in the back.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"I know you too well, Theon. I saw you take your first step, helped you bend your first bow. Tis not me who feels wasted." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The money was not altogether wasted—new chemical elements, such as phosphorus, antimony and mercury, were discovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was another time that there were three of them, exploring in the mountain wastes on the edge of Jotunheim, the home of the giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Because Mr. Blessington told me I was going to end up in jail, so why waste my time doing homework?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“If it happens, I’m saying. We can’t waste anything. If we get enough meat in the water we’ll have a good shot at drawing the bigger fish.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother said Dad was wasting his time, that nobody could talk Tyler out of anything once his mind was made up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Ah, dear God! how can this be That all things wear and waste away!” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He did not waste any of what time he had either. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to know, Mama. I don’t want to waste my time,” Clara said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the greatest of them, Balerion, the Black Dread, could have swallowed an aurochs whole, or even one of the hairy mammoths said to roam the cold wastes beyond the Port of Ibben. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a public toilet now, nothing in it but human waste and rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d decided that everything outside the window was a distraction from my quest, so I didn’t need to waste time staring at it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

You live in the hood and either you get hard or you get wasted. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how much time she wasted looking for you?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Her voice was disinterested, but the performance was wasted on everyone except Helvar. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This meant, among other things, that prayer and only prayer could heal afflictions like the rheumatism that afflicted Joyce’s father, and that doctors were a waste of time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No used underwear,” she said, “just some things. And look on the bright side. Now you won’t have to waste so much time comparing price tags with your friends.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Or she would spend hours on the phone talking to her friends, about which violin teacher was good and which tutorial was a waste of money. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It's not fair that he's wasting his life on me, a person who will never return his feelings. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The pilot was not going to waste his precious load on a lone figure in a field. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A hatbox is blazed with biohazard symbols, which are red, spiky three-petaled flowers, and it is used for storing and transporting infectious waste. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom won’t let me buy new books, says it’s a waste of money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The tide drift had taken him down into the kelp, and he’d wasted four hours extricating himself so as not to rip his gill-net. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m very happy that God has given you this opportunity to make something of yourself, of your life. Don’t waste it, child.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my mom had been there, I knew the shark wouldn’t have gone to waste. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"Waste," she said, "waste! Fighting! Can't trust you with own face." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In his dream he said that the suit was too important to waste. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I pretended to be looking for Algernon under a waste basket. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It did no good to waste time agonizing over the outcome. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m six feet tall, almost as tall as he, and he figures the height is wasted on me since I don’t share his dreams of me going to the WNBA. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was clear, no spelling mistakes, no wasted words. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He sure don’t waste any time getting to the point. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d lie in my bunk and feel the ship’s engines throbbing and know that even when I fell asleep I wouldn’t be wasting time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Robert and Kyle threatened to call the fire department because it was a waste of water and taxpayer money, they said. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I still haven’t figured out why he’s wasting his time on me when he could easily fit in with any clique he wanted. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

At least ten kids were absent from science—so many kids that we had to waste our time with worksheets. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A lamp's lit. Look at those candles. Mom would never waste candles if no one was home." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

To neutralize the poisons, military hospitals sprayed the chemicals in the air and on smelly body waste. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m actually wearing my tracksuit and standing in the water, thinking of those lyrics about love going to waste. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But homesickness would often strike them, spreading like a terrible fever; some wasted away out of sadness. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once he opened Melquíades' room, looking for the traces of a past from before the war, and he found only rubble, trash, piles of waste accumulated over all the years of abandonment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They did not waste time; there was never enough. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they weren’t going to waste any time with this new guy, it was going to be real easy and real quick with him. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nods, and I watch as she tries to put the bag of collected trash into the waste bin. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But what I said to my father before was right—for every second that I waste, another Abnegation member dies. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The New England states use a terse form of instruction, a tight-lipped, laconic style sheet, wasting no words and few letters. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, a woman upstairs begged her to accept a bag of frozen meats and vegetables, because she was moving the next day, and she hated to see good food go to waste. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, he had been told, one of the three things God most hated: murder, divorce, and waste. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s bad enough wasting time without killing it.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The big man did not waste time reaching for his sword. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So wasting no time, my father pushed his way to the front, but was stopped at the door by a policeman. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

After a while they just looked out through the silted glass to where the track curved away in the waste of weeds. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At some fixed point in time and space he senses that he need not waste the effort of a glance. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two minutes by my watch. He won’t have to waste the evening after all.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tia Lourdes gets upset and says it’s like a horoscope, that it means nothing unless you want it to, that it’s a complete waste of time. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it became a sacrament, Ben felt that he would be a high priest, a cardinal of the upward stroke, a pope of wasted seed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with careful deliberation and without a wasted movement, he punched the other boy to the ground with two punches to the stomach and two to the face. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have a second to waste, so I get straight to the point, like Miles did last night. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d put one of my pillows there for him and he hadn’t wasted one minute flopping down on it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In the nights sometimes now he’d wake in the black and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You wasted no time ingratiating yourself, did you?” he says. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

If so, it was a waste of time and money, because he’s not appealing at all. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was given a wheelbarrow and told to collect human waste from the privies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“So take us to her. Were wasting time.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Matt circled around the end of one of the buildings and rode down into a depression that must have been used for waste. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And before you ask, she’s asleep, so let’s not waste time here.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t even going to waste my time on him,” Clean said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some say the whole thing is a waste of time, because we’ll never reach six million. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“So me standing here moving is proof that Zeno was wrong and silly and just wasting our time. Motion is possible, and everyone in this room knows it.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In any case, it would have been foolish to waste the few remaining minutes of daylight. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no,” she said gently, “please don’t waste time. Take me to the Regent at once. He’s waiting for me.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most begging him to waste the day spending a million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tormund was not the sort of man to waste good mead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The noise level subsided, as if people were distracted with preparations and didn’t want to waste time with the usual bickering. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be off this latest clinical drug trial and out of this hospital and can do something with my life, instead of letting my mom waste it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. I’m sorry. I know there’s no time to waste, but I had to be sure you are who I thought you were. The best thing about dying is your friendship.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We ran into barefoot children in tattered clothes rummaging through waste bins. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Since darkness was coming on, there seemed no point in wasting more of her time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Rats, turtles, and snakes caught in our traps are not wasted as we cook and eat their brains, tails, hides, and blood. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We're going to stop by your tia’s house to drop off some of the food left over from today. I don't want it to go to waste." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to waste my time crying,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They advanced now slowly, expecting at every hour some answer to their challenge, and they drew together, since it was but waste of men to send out scouts or small parties from the main host. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It was the waste of a trip. She’s not here,” I tell him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If a single letter or digit was copied out wrong, it could waste hours of everyone’s time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If the wasps are too groggy, if the nest catches on its way down, if I try to escape, this could all be a deadly waste of time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ve wasted enough time with the protection song. Tonight, we need to get started on the water monster songs. After you sing the lullaby back to me.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Milton, on the other hand, didn’t waste time reevaluating the evidence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You speak coolly enough; but you suffer in the conflict. You are wasting away.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A man collected this waste paper and took it away for baling. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s stupid to waste pity on your friends, who do not need it!” yelled Ranofer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s also a waste of effort to grow them from seed, since the offspring even of an outstanding individual tree of those species are highly variable and mostly yield worthless fruit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As for my father, he thinks my talent for drawing is impressive, but wasted. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A waste of words. The peasants might as well be blind for all they ever see.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After seeing the details of this shark inside and out, it seemed even more of a waste. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Because once you kill the animal, it’s a sin to waste anything that can be eaten....Besides, it tastes good.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Axel has zero time to waste at the door with Byrd and Ms. Dale. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When and where to build roads; how to eliminate waste in food distribution and thus end hunger; how to protect the environment from the ever-growing human population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Even the wilderness is carefully husbanded there, and though that forest had been logged for centuries there were no waste places in it, no desolations of stumps, no eroded slopes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no kindness, no gentleness to this departure; nothing human, but rather a degeneration into some demonic substratum of the body that had waited to lay waste to all the lineaments of grace. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had lost a third of their number, and still the waste stretched before them, bleak and red and endless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His dreams were filled with images of smoke and ruin, of land laid waste. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My field of sunflowers looks like a toxic waste dump, which might turn out to be a cool statement on society’s unthinking gluttonous exploitation of our planet’s natural resources. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

City- made clothes were too valuable to waste on someone going back to civilization. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead his crew had standing orders to flush the waste into the basin, which was already murky. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Like Keav, they wasted away and laid in their own feces and urine, completely alone. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If enemies had crossed the waste to destroy these cities in ancient days, they might well come again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he decided that was a waste of time; what he needed to do was get Kevin out from under the branch. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I should be mad that he’s wasting water—after all, we still have all the same restrictions as before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No, we can waste the milk. Barrels would get in the way. We just need to relieve the pressure.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“You don’t waste a bullet on a horse.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody would care to remember that, and you’d have wasted your one opportunity. You don’t get two chances to say your last words, you know.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"Well, until they do, no sense in wasting a hunting day. But we should probably eat as much as we can hold just in case we run into trouble," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some streams were for freshwater, some for waste disposal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Look. There are only six days left of summer, and I'm not going to waste them playing a dumb game." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You guys are wasting your time and mine. I need to get out there fishing.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You grieve beyond what is natural, and your body does weaken and waste away,” she says gently. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Maybe if the Collective has their samples, they won’t waste time searching for me if I suddenly disappear. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We all need to waste a little water sometimes,” I tell her. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I never knew what happened to it all, and the waste used to worry me sometimes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Heather doesn’t have talent or connections—I tell her she is wasting her time to even think of it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

After my ninth I convinced myself it was a waste of valuable time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Under all the bunks except the forward double one were bins for more storage—no wasted space on a boat—and under the double was a water tank which David thought held twenty gallons. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All that maleness wasted,” she said, combing my thick hair gently. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Between the plague of the chinchillas and Blanca’s escapades, the count wasted several months of his time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s a shocking waste of youth. How old are you now? Eighteen?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name ’Cause we made history Na na na na, na na na I poke Mirren with a carrot. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly Neel unclenched his fist, just as Baba had done the day before, and his homework dropped into the waste bin. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tennis is the only sport that comes close to not being a total waste of time. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shanties built out of every imaginable scrap of waste—roofs of coconut thatch or gunnysacks, walls cobbled together from metal signs, wooden crates, or even cardboard taped over with plastic sheets—lined the narrow streets. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"We're wasting hunting time," I say when I finally break away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Work hard, see results had always been their formula, so I was happy to report that they hadn’t wasted their time or money on me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Paul wasted no time putting her plan into action. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Millions of gallons of water wasted, millions of lights burning, millions of pieces of litter, much of it harmful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Al Ulbrickson wasn’t one to waste a lot of time trying to figure out a touchy kid’s tender spots. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After all, part of the stench was from the waste in the pig’s intestines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Leslie sat way up in the front corner nowhere near the waste basket or pencil sharpener, so there was no way he could pretend to be heading somewhere else and sneak a word with her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ll help you, but don’t waste my time.You understand? I don’t have time for losers.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In briefest terms, the second law states that a little energy is always wasted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But right now it would be a waste of valuable energy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once he forged his chain, his secret father and his friends wasted no time dispatching him to Winterfell to fill Lord Rickard’s ears with poisoned words as sweet as honey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our exact positioning between those two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No one understood that microbes in body waste contaminated drinking water and caused dysentery and typhoid fever. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Abide by this one and only rule and you won’t find yourself wasting hours with the company’s counselors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had the car today, and Toby wasn’t going to waste it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, Bernard and I sat down with them in my office and they wasted no time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Antain wasted no time, entering the Protectorate’s gates at a run. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I stopped and walked slowly over to the hut that perched like a circular living room on the waste of sands. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Tjaden regrets that we wasted the gnawed pieces of bread on the rats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found their way to the depot, which was a couple of concrete warehouses in a scrubby area of waste ground where thin weeds grew between gray rocks and pools of icy mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Other observers in Osage County noted that suspicious deaths were routinely, and falsely, attributed to “consumption,” “wasting illness,” or “causes unknown.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Things that seemed so necessary in the past, so vital to life, wasted and forgotten. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The three-year-old was only getting sicker, wasting away before everyone’s eyes, as the mutant germs flourished. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources: radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories, and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly every cellular function—metabolism, respiration, cell division, self-defense, waste disposal, secretion, signaling, growth, even cellular death—requires proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Why are you wasting time with a girl like that, Darnell?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t, so there was no use wasting time wishing for it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Methodically, enthusiastically, one after the next, Thor killed the giants of the waste, until the earth ran black and red with their blood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A related chemical, pentachlorophenol, sometimes known as “penta,” is used as a weed killer as well as an insecticide, often being sprayed along railroad tracks and in waste areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not daring to waste any time, I hurriedly crept inside through an open balcony door. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered us not ale, but lifewater’ He meant to waste no time. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting the pizza to go to waste, she sits down next to the pool and begins to eat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You wasted your time with that stunt you pulled at the bonfire. You’ve undermined yourself, and you’re ruining my plans. Where do you expect to go now?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"I knew I couldn't stay long. There's no point in wasting it on me." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fighting back would have been a complete waste of energy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who go to parties and drink and don’t get wasted off of one beer. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was interesting, Kira decided, that they had found a way for water to enter the building, but impractical and unsanitary, and there was no place to bury waste. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was something to ponder, but for now, I was wasting the cool of the morning. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He took more time eating and looking at nature and wasted no time in front of TV sitcoms or “Movies of the Week.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for the most part, the people of Bakersfield, California, are following the rules of rubbish, meaning that they are tossing their garden waste in the right direction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And this time she was really going to send some money to Emma, and she wasn’t going to waste any more time fooling around with Indian war heroes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Academy was 100 percent eco-friendly, right down to the bathrooms, where the toilets had different “flush settings,” depending on the kind of waste you were getting rid of. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Everything about her speaks of waste—her body, her life, the vacant look in her eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another wasted chance running like poisoned water under Africa, curling our souls into fists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keav slept in cots similar to these, drenched in urine and waste. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes after starting out, I finally haul myself onto the outcrop on the other side, completely spent, so wasted I can barely raise my arms. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the seesaws a fight had started, but I didn’t want to waste time watching it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t want to waste going to your first dance with a friend. Wait till you have a real boyfriend.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t like to waste time, so when I at last turned around, I did so abruptly and asked directly, “Are you the children who have been missing from Greenwich for a week?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never much imagined myself as a woman grown, anyway, and nowadays especially it seems a waste of imagination. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It runs on fossil fuel and creates tons of waste and pollution. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wasted no time in stepping out of what had been Sarah’s—Norah’s—scrubs, leaving them in a heap on the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But now the shame was an echo, and all he felt was regret—for the time he’d wasted, for the pain he’d caused, and yes, even now, for what he was about to do. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All told, more than a thousand Cherokee homes were laid waste during that winter and some fifty thousand bushels of corn and other provisions either burned or looted. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“When I told them about it they didn’t waste any time. They say it’s a chemical imbalance, and if I get the right drugs for it, I’ll be fine.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was hungry but I did not want to waste time. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was all just a big waste of time. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across—hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time to waste, since the electricity came and went. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I hung my toxic waste dump painting on the wall. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The boy smiles even bigger, nods, looks me up and down, and says, “Spicy! I like you. You sure you don’t wanna get white-boy wasted?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Technically," Colin answered, "I think I might have already wasted it." An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Lee said angrily, “I guess I’ve been wasting my time. Are you lying to yourself or only to me?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you waste money getting another pair of earrings?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to waste the seal meat, he lifted the carcass in his teeth and flipped it onto the back of Lee Scoresby’s larger sledge before donning the armor. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because I refused to live invincibly on all the days I didn’t get an alert, I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The world should be like a garden with people bright as roses and lilies and tulips, otherwise it's all a waste, Maman used to say. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She thought the ocean was one big waste. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were thrown into jail, executed, or sent to prison camps in the frozen wastes of Siberia. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We found a new waste mart man, but he’s worse than stingy.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And at the end of their meal there’d be nothing left to clean up, since the cattle would spread their waste exactly where it would do the most good. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His tone was urgent, and Will didn’t waste time asking why. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This is a waste of time! Let’s just grab her bag and go!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The lesson there was simple: Life is short and not to be wasted. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The shells made deep slushy craters, opening up all those years of waste, centuries worth, and the smell came bubbling out of the earth. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can you linger on this island, aimless and shiftless, while your people waste away?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next I talk about the train work and how good I got at keeping on my feet, even wasted. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You stuff food, you stuff people. If you don’t like what is inside a particular food, then leave it alone, don’t stuff it with something else. A waste of garden eggs, in my opinion.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her bad boy and bad girl were probably sneaking hamburgers, wasting their money. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just sorry you wasted the money paying for this room.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“But you got to get a whole lot faster. You can’t waste time! ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was down in the cellar, among the waste and entrails. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A derailed train with a pool of toxic waste spilling from the tank cars. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If he was there, it would be stupid for me to waste time out here. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Someone says, “The Second Army mauled, the Ninth cut off. France’s best fleets wasted.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Good friend that he was, he did not waste time arguing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Above Snow, the wind was a living thing, howling around them like a wolf in the waste, then falling off to nothing as if to lure them into complacency. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn’t like. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama will be back in precisely thirty-eight minutes, and if things continue the way they’ve been going, this visit will have been a total waste. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

"I didn't want to waste the batteries," she said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really want to discuss it with him, because I was sure he’d criticize me for wasting my time. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That has been a huge waste of money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So far, no one had met Twinkle; back when they were still dating, Sanjeev didn’t want to waste their brief weekends together with people he associated with being alone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“That would be a complete waste of potion,” said Hermione flatly, putting down the copy of Spellman’s Syllabary she had just taken out of her bag. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is all a big fat waste of time. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stories,” Ma said, slapping her hands against the table, making the water in the fishbowl sway as she stood up and left the table, “are what wasted money on this goldfish.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended, and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"An impressive effort tonight. You are truly as agile as Agent Iparis claimed. I hate seeing such talents wasted on worthless criminals, but life isn't very fair, is it?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the toast off the floor to throw it away, but Charlie held out his hand and said, “Don’t waste it, bro.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It will be my pleasure, Father,” the young man replied lazily, “but why not just send Noah? He’s able-bodied. Perfectly good waste of a strong worker, seems to me.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much laid to waste from the miscalculation of infallibility in the face of a planet’s revolt. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Only that word, repeated over and over again! How could that be the secret to immortality? I even took the Storyteller too! But for nothing! Just a waste!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

That’s the thing about a second chance—it doesn’t mean much when the person wasted the first one. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter. I wasted my time reading that paper. I didn’t know what the hell it was talking about most of the time.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They should never know how much they consumed, and how much they wasted.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But wasting my time in class was a problem if I was going to make Tina understand what a great guy I was. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just think of all the time we wasted while you were deciding if you wanted to be just friends or not.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The reactions may be between two or more chemicals, or between chemicals and the radioactive wastes that are being discharged into our rivers in ever-increasing volume. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sherman’s troops laid waste to much of Georgia, cutting off food supplies. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“But enough delay. Even greater things lie ahead, Reynard, much greater things, and we must waste no time achieving them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The performance has been rather a waste of time, hasn't it? Do you want to ask him anything else?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although Blaine was used to persistent office seekers, he became annoyed by this man who was wasting both his and the State Department's time. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Consider it on the house. We don’t want you wasting away just yet.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A machine that fell short of the necessary energies, on the other hand, would look like an enormous waste of money. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Since it was almost full he used the first swig to rinse out his mouth, but that was a waste. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A few seconds of his rant. I don’t have the time to waste on outbursts like that.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says, My boys, from the frozen wastes of North Dakota to the fragrant orange groves of Florida, Americans enjoy all climates. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘It is good to learn that they are still alive,’ said Gimli; ‘for they cost us great pains in our march over Rohan, and I would not have such pains all wasted.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Those whom fire has spared are drowned by water; the man rescued from the water is saved only by air tainted with pestilence; and the survivor of war is ruined by wasting sickness.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kids can sleep, no cars on the road, it’s cooler, and you don’t waste a day getting there.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had assumed that the Pacific, but for passing schools of fish, was a sparsely inhabited waste of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The extra time you’d put into getting the size and shape of the head just right is totally wasted too. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“When a horse pulls up lame, you don’t waste a bullet on him.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

God’s wrath had laid waste to cities, it had flooded the whole earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As his son later observed, “To my father any waste was too much!” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It felt like he missed a lot of my life, even though it had only been about three weeks since he’d been out getting wasted every night with Cork. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Keep them from wasting their much touted skills on one another. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was known to us all as being a most cruel wretch,—a common drunkard, who had, by his reckless mismanagement and profligate dissipation, already wasted a large portion of his father’s property. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

"City's starving, it's a crime to waste food. You have any wine?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No. That’s a waste of money to just go sleep. We spent all of our cash on the new place anyway. Don’t be such a baby about tonight. It’s like camping.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Instead she walked swiftly, careful not to waste any of her precious cargo. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I wasted too much time yesterday,” she said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only the famished young dog who really suffered, for he was not a natural hunter, and wasted a lot of ill-afforded energy in pursuit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to stand here listening to this. Every second talking to you is a second wasted.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I pop into Aaron’s, I continue my normal routine of wasting time. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They growled words that made no sense, echoes of all the hurts and insults, the dinners gone to waste, the women, the abandonments. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

So I sat at the wooden worktable in the back of Ben’s wagon and chafed at wasting the day listening to him lecture me about things I already understood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I told Ms. Gruwell, “Nobody cares about what I do, so why should I bother to come to school? Why should I waste my time when I have better things to do?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. I don't know why he doesn't just give it up. I kinda feel sorry for him, wasting his life, dreaming of being a hero." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She lost weight, refusing to eat as if wasting away in despair. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then I imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t had a bag of coal and decide this might not be such a waste of time after all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Being swallowed by a strange animal had taught the aunt not to waste her time shouting; now, all that she wanted to do was to sit quietly in the sun. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And because they were still hungry and didn’t want to waste food, they picked the hot dogs off the grass and ate them right before a flock of seagulls usurped them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I catch you wasting my money again, you’ll be working without a lunch break or not working at all. You understand me, boy?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have done a lot of work on black holes, and it would all be wasted if it turned out that black holes do not exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re wasting our time. It was going the other way, didn’t you see?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said aloud, to bolster his courage, “there’s no time to waste, so here goes.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m even issued a special set of batteries—an enormous waste—to be used for this purpose. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Bourgeois pigs, always wasting time. You won’t need that hat,” he scoffed. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But truly, broken down and wasted away as I was, I could do no more for him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste yourself on the lyre,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Anya had wasted enough time being lost in the swamp, and she wasn’t going to waste any more. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They encouraged him to study constantly, to read through their meals together, to stay up late reading, to stop wasting time with his friends. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every drop of magical blood spilled is a loss and a waste. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

To get even to the nearest star, you would need an enormous amount of fuel to jettison out the back of the rocket—a tremendous waste. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing was considered more of a sin in our house than wasted time and motions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a waste for such a pretty girl to dress in a widow’s sari. I have a sari with real gold threads. It would make me very happy to see you wear it.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were miles of pastures and tens of miles of wasted, washed-out land abandoned to the hardier weeds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to lie in my own waste, which is what I deserved. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How long are you going to waste time here in idle luxury?” a severe voice asked. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mounds and mounds of junk and waste stretched out like a mountain range. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I set the fire, waiting until everyone was up to light it so that no fuel would be wasted. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a waste if I’m right. It’s always a strongarm beating up on someone.” Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I mean—suppose you made a little mistake—or didn’t understand something right away. If you wasted my time cursing and yelling ‘I can’t get that! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bah! Last time was a wasted question,” the emperor said with a snort of irritation. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I waste a second looking back at him, torn in that instant, wondering if I should chase after him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, as the doctor appears not to have known, lead is not excreted as a waste product. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"And I suppose Miss Honey wasted the whole of one lesson teaching you to spell that one single word?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

But this herald makes me feel like I should stop wasting her time because, unlike me, she has so much of it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ugwu served her drink last and wasted long minutes drying his hands on a dish towel before he opened the door to let her in. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to mention Hill House, she assured Dr. Montague far away, I just want to waste a little time. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So, you being with Warren is a waste of time?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want to do is start crying in front of Hiroshi because he told me I’m basically wasting my time with this painting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Kind of a luxury for a family of your type. You like wasting money often?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There is so much to enjoy in the world; how foolish to waste even an hour of it hiding away in avoidance of pain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Three of us, and a fourth man wasted guarding us . . . four men can be the difference between life and death up here." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But let us not waste time while the spirits grow stronger. Gabriel, I want you to erect a platform here.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not wasted the talents and opportunities God gave me, and I’d tried to be, as my mom put it, the best Simone I could be. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The book! Where are Anansi’s stories? We should get started right away. Preparations need to begin, no time to waste, chop-chop.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He was walking with great dignity, without a single wasted motion. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

All told, the Greeks knew the Mediterranean Sea from Gibraltar to Syria; they knew that the European continent stretched north into an icy waste, and that Africa stretched south into a trackless, infernal desert. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

And they must be trained as well, or they will lay my kingdom waste. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dad sees right away that I have all the power, so he's not wasting energy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I stuck around for the trial, I’d be wasting my time. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“What are you wasting your time for?” the guidance counselor had asked him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who needed to waste a penny at the candy store when you could get a taste of molasses for free? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Why was I wasting my energy carrying along a sick boy who would most likely be dead before we got to Sachsenhausen? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to the beach, sand spilling onto the road, she doesn’t waste any time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Later, Obinze’s mother would ask them to stay in her house, there was no point wasting money on a hotel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hrbik and the tactility of the body do not fit into Art and Archaeology; my botched attempts at drawing naked women would be seen as a waste of time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I would not waste my thoughts on him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“No, you’re not. If you want to shut him up, then beat him. He’s just a brute from the king’s army—don’t waste your strength on hating him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Felix had wasted most of the evening playing with his phone and the rest of the time stressing over money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tyson, you’re wasting away. Would you like another peanut butter sandwich?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We hurried along to the waste mart man’s street. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I unzipped the main pocket of my backpack, not wasting any time. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If they want to, they shouldn’t waste their time trying to peck one out accidentally but should instead evolve into something that has a better chance of writing Hamlet. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was already high in the heavens and the cool morning hours were already wasted. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You know I can’t waste any gas coming back to pick you up, right? The only way I could justify the trip to J & H Supermarket was the sale on beef.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

And I can think of one carer at least who went on for all of fourteen years despite being a complete waste of space. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We all know Professor Moody considers the morning wasted if he hasn’t discovered six plots to murder him before lunchtime,” said Karkaroff loudly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Brother Vu wants to be a cook or teach martial arts, not waste a year as the oldest senior. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I want to blurt out that I don't want her man, but it would be a waste of my breath at this point. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The train flew over its pylons, curving toward the center of the trade nexus, speeding over brackish water, bright with leaked waste oil and scrap trash and the stink of chemicals. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But that boy didn’t waste a minute shuffling up the aisle and plopping himself right down next to me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Actually I couldn’t even imagine wasting one bite of such a mouthwatering delicacy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It is a great deal, but I have counted carefully and I will waste no penny of it. I shall make the cloth dealer give me the last inch to the foot.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It is a waste of time and energy But still, the king officially decreed that all rats in the Kingdom of Dor were outlaws and should be treated as such. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But this opportunity is too good to go to waste.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She won’t waste time at finding words that are not the ones she is thinking. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Beyond was darkness and a dreary waste of land and sea. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not going to stand there wasting a good day off from school saying the rosary for a dead greyhound. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up. There’s not a moment to waste.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean, if we unload all that gear—everything but the kitchen sink, like you said—this whole business will be ruined, wasted.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to underscore the waste and immorality of the standard American diet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was folded in with the war; he was part of the waste. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is her first,” said Kali, jovially, “but by no means her last, for as you see her husband has not wasted any time!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were too many to get them all, and they didn’t have time to waste. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re wasting time. Are you coming voluntarily or do we knock you out?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So I guess the trip to 12 wasn’t a complete waste. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Still, the waste man’s curiosity left me uneasy. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I thanked him, knowing his hope was wasted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After witnessing a mass shooting, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, decided that guns wasted too much time and too many bullets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Worried that the government was wasting taxpayer money, Truman decided to send investigators to Oak Ridge and Hanford. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t want to waste life, not even a minute of it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reek of wood smoke and human waste and bad food thickens the air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you don’t have it, don’t waste God’s time.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Dusty Muleman pulled his usual trick, all that raw waste would be streaming out of the basin later. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“All right, all right. You can’t spare a minute of your wasted life for this woman, can you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed annoyed with me, perhaps because I should have told them this straightaway, instead of wasting all day talking about myself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the snake knew where I was, he wouldn’t waste his time trying to scare me,” he reasoned. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nearly, because it would be a shame to waste such good scotch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Neither did he see a colossal earth goddess laying waste to the world. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe he thinks it’s a waste of time. He’s never said why. I bet my parents would have let me go to the movies.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t hear me; he has enemies to waste. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a foolish waste of time playing this game. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bedroom curtains were made of raw silk, and she told Aunty Uju, ‘Ahn-ahn, it’s a waste to use this material as a curtain! Let’s sew a dress with it.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d get wasted with his crew in the backyard every evening after work, and many nights he’d end up fighting with one of them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t, wouldn’t waste another minute dreading wash day and ironing the white sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The winds will die down soon. You need to be there at the optimal hour. So, you mustn’t waste time with questions.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wastes no time, but sits him down to tell him about God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and how he must bring the message of salvation to the other Powhatans. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Late that afternoon—eighteen hours after the president's death—he made his first incision into Garfield's wasted body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And who knows how many hours to waste before I can find out whether Judith made it to her hiding spot. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to have to explain to my parents why I was wasting precious phone minutes talking to a boy at two in the morning. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It tastes as if they boiled old socks and dumped the liquid into a coffeepot, but I gulp it down anyway because I’m not about to waste my two dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the office stood the moment they saw the scythe, and he wasted no time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It looked as though they had wasted their ale and Lydia’s brandy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d just as soon throw our food to the fish as see it go to waste on this trash.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, without uncovering it again, he dropped the photograph into the memory hole, along with some other waste papers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I can’t waste the toffee so I pull out the tooth and put it in my pocket and chew the toffee on the other side of my mouth blood and all. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I went to Bolvangar to fetch him safe home, only I made it worse, and if I don’t say sorry, it’ll all be no good, just a huge waste of time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So I didn’t waste a lot of time worrying. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Such a pity, such a waste,” Caul said, clucking his tongue. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Not that his mother wouldn’t have taken the day off from the button factory where she worked to come down, but because it seemed true, that he was wasting his time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

More commonly, the dryness comes back and the fuzz of grass withers or a little frost curls it and there’s that amount of seed wasted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

More than once, he said that Patria as a nun would be a waste of a pretty girl. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw an old woman wasting handfuls of rice, tossing it at passersby, a drooping, toothless smile on her face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was not wasted time: they held a council of war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her people had followed her across the red waste as she chased her comet, and would follow her across the poison water too, but they would not be enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She said the ticket price was a waste of her hard-earned money. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She pivoted, shackles clanking, and took in the desolate waste that was Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The township encompassed the Union Stock Yards and two large parks: Washington Park, with lawns, gardens, and a popular racetrack, and Jackson Park, a desolate, undeveloped waste on the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I hated to kill it even more than I hated to waste upwards of sixty talents worth of ophalum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If Cole wasted this chance, nobody else would pay a penny. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I remember. Why didn't you tell me? The time we’ve wasted when we might have been together. All these weeks and days.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I got inside my house, I didn't waste no time. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Liza’s voice, close to his ear, said, “Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. Say you will miss me.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But a well-rehearsed game; the rats had planned carefully; they knew exactly what they were doing; they moved with precision and never wasted a motion. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In recent winters, frozen human waste has been chipped out of public toilets in cities and towns across the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Congress admonished the brain busters not to waste taxpayer money on “science fiction” and dreams of manned spaceflight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Because there was no point. What was I going to do? Sell my drawings? It was a waste of time.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then Spevy fell to the Kargs and was looted and laid waste, its people taken as slaves, so that even now it is an isle of ruins. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I laugh until Sam grumbles to stop wasting food. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“There can be multiple reasons. The point is we only have one day left, and we’re wasting it.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

No time to waste floating around on the wind. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I smuggle frozen TV dinners into the refrigerator and con her into eating them by saying they’ll go to waste if she doesn’t. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Eh! My son wastes money on these expensive things,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But feeling hungry myself, I reasoned that it would be pointless to waste whatever little energy I had left in scatting them away, for they would soon return. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You're not concentrating. You're wasting your father's money and my time. If you fail, I fail. That goes down as a stain on my reputation." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

After about ten minutes the lights went out, but I decided to stay where I was rather than waste time climbing down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If he sent it back, though, it would only go to waste or to somebody else, and Major Major had a weakness for broiled lobster. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Words are another thing not wasted in 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Indeed the waste in time will be waste no longer, and there will be people and fields where once there was wilderness.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Food is hard enough to come by, without you wasting what I cook,” she said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Look at the fancy green door! Who else has time and money to waste like that? You know I’m right.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was no use wasting matches until she knew how far she had to go. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t like wasting their money,” Melissa says when she’s allowed back. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will not allow you to do bad gymnastics, because that’s just a waste of time.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s what makes it so important that not a single moment be wasted. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Using these to cook in, I saved the juices of the fish which are good and were wasted before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His project focused on solving environment problems, notably waste, by using a natural resource: earthworms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I guess there really isn’t anything they can do about it if I want to waste my money like that. I’m glad they’re letting me stay in the dorms till after the Last Hoorah party.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Malvonne did not know what made her waste a three-cent stamp other than the pleasure of knowing the government was delivering her heat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not until they’d laid waste to everyone who stood in their path. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“But when I nearly died, no flowers were sent, no casseroles were baked. I was selfish and crazy for wasting my life when my sister had hers taken away.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name ’Cause we made history Na na na na, na na na. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I know Daddy loves me as much as Hana, but sometimes he looks at my long legs and long arms like they’re such a waste. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The bitter upland plains, the purple wastes of sage, the wild, swift antelope, and the grouse are then a natural system in perfect balance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He seemed to regard discussing politics as almost as much of a waste of time as participating in it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you wasting your time with me?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that human remains didn’t look much different than animal parts after a week in the waste pit or the Stockyards’ communal sewer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you let such a nice place go to waste?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I could see Stan receiving an anonymous missive detailing my humiliating defeats, ending with the statement: don’t waste your time on him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d wasted so many months pushing Ocean away and I wished so much, every day, that I hadn’t. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste your pity on me. ’Tis as roomy as many a ship’s berth I’ve slept in.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Human waste,” said the man from Parks and Recreation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Stories are not a waste of time,” Ba said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ma didn’t waste no time, she said, “Go get your Sunday clothes on, ’Lijah. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Trouble!” my uncle Juan whispered hoarsely, but his voice carried and I could hear, “trouble in town! Tenorio’s daughter, the one who has been sick and wasting away, death has come for her!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least 130 kids—boys and girls—and the coach and the team captains didn’t waste any time trying to make nice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been teaching her to decipher the symbols, before the fevers, the awful hacking and coughing and the blood-spattered handkerchiefs, the way her mother wasted away to almost nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Garbage had not been collected all that week, and stray dogs were scavenging among mountains of waste. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I said, grateful he’d understood that the waste man scared me. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a shade too sincere, but the subtleties of irony are often wasted in 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They weren’t about to waste their time with another white man’s game. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"It's over. I'm sorry I wasted your time, Max." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"That there hang not only my generations wasting upon the water —" And now the pain welled up and I could no longer see them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t let it, you know, go to waste.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most didn’t last long, either taking their own lives or wasting away from a lack of will even to eat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She said she wouldn’t waste her money on earrings. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Scientists were wasting time doing the same things on different campuses. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine, said Aunt Lydia, wasting their time like that, when they should have been doing something useful. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a waste of time, they said. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“And you said my studies were a waste of time.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The scheme failed because there were no pearls and anyway Norwood’s bell didn’t work, but Norwood was not one to waste an experience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t waste time by making me stand there and watch him play out the rest of his game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mom was the sort of girl who had had boyfriends in high school and often remarked that she wished she hadn’t wasted her time. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal Tech was not the place—Linus was too great a man to waste his time teaching a mathematically deficient biologist. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But I think it a waste for either of us to spend too much time in sorrow over something we cannot change.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He assumed the panther would be an old, wasted male with worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and my words and my soul. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Let's not waste time on formalities," he said and prepared to sign the papers without reading them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The only thing that got him out of bed was knowing that every second he wasted meant he was one second closer to the rising of the sun. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Sefia was struck by his thinness, as if he had wasted away down here, and all he had to hold himself up now was the broom he clung to like a walking stick. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The naked waste, as far as the eye could pierce, even to the distant menace of the mountains, was dappled with the fitful moonlight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I speak of moving swiftly, and you waste my time with goat tracks?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"I refuse to waste any more of my precious time in here!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

This waren’t nothing but a waste of time, though, ’cause soon’s the rag left his face, sweat rolled right back all over it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He could smell the foaming flood water, stagnant and ripe with the rotting debris it carried past each village, sucking up their sewage, their waste, the dead animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy said I wasted too much time reading, when I should be outside playing and helping him ’round the house. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She lifted the cover of the garbage can and inspected it for waste. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I spent most of the weekend holed up in my room, pleasantly wasted. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It struck me that his hand looked wasted like his face. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It would have gone slick as butter. There was only one thing wrong. We wasted our time and risked our necks for nothing!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Crippled muscles withered further, synapses wouldn't fire, wasted legs refused to ambulate. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Indeed no man would count such a journey wasted,’ said Aragorn; ‘and yet, lady, I could not have come hither, if it were not that the road which I must take leads me to Dunharrow.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And I was pitying you having jaundice. Pity is something that is wasted on you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

No, letters of that type would be a waste of time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She is so wasted. How am I going to get her past my parents?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise, this is just a waste of time.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We used to claim that the roll-call was a waste of time and motion. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Warlord thrashed about, killing, conquering and laying waste to all in his dream. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Eating food is never a waste of money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. And you thought we wasted trees in the Smoke!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“All right, you can go. You have gotten what you wanted. But heaven help you if you waste Mr. Hartsfield’s time!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was the queen of the Hollows, and here she was deigning to waste a few of her precious words on me, a kid from Valedale? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"Why waste any time thinking about it? I don't want to live in constant questioning. I just want to live my life. Our life." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if she was wasted or not. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Three and a half years of nights like these, unable to sleep, thinking of another vanished boy, another vanished life that was once his own, and waiting for dawn, and slop-out and another wasted day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The last bag is filled with I don’t know what—lumps of black and gray waste. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to be voting! You are wasting your money, boy! Next thing I know you’ll be asking for charity to feed those children.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But if you wasted every day worrying about the next....And you never knew what was coming, anyway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Foolish woman. Why do you waste your money on us?” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In Midgard they would make their homes, protected from giants and monsters and all the dangers that wait in the wastes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Galen and I helped Joel compost chicken waste. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I heard in whispers that they were wasting their service money in the back room of the Eight Ball Pool Hall. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he didn’t want to waste a precious bullet on a little girl. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you noticed there are junk heaps everywhere? Plenty of other places we can work. And other waste mart men.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Got them all inside now, and they wouldn’t have to waste any more wind. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began dancing around in circles, and I wasted no time. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In a way it was a waste, because Ralph was still too little to get the real good flavor out of candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine throwing away a sweet—just wasting the whole thing. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not wasting the entire year without a boyfriend,” Audrey said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Come along! There's not a second to waste!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even if he had wasted his question about the Mixed-Up Files book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But this was not because they were unchanged holdovers from humankind’s ancient past but because smallpox and influenza laid waste to their villages in the 1920s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Is it so? I wonder. If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I shore didn’t waste no time mindin’ them boogers,” Grandpa said the next morning when he was telling us all about the robbery. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No one would give him anything to eat—with the exception of chicken broth—since it would be a waste of food. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Saints, he doesn’t waste any time, does he? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It’d be better than the way you waste all your time now. After all, what are you going to do in life?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Father never went, because he did not want to waste any of his free time. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why I am spending much of my life today telling the American black man that he’s wasting his time straining to “integrate. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I wouldn’t waste any time to start opening their eyes about the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I had come out of a dark age, and wished I had not wasted two years in Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave it all in the plane. Leave it or I’m flying out of here right now. I know what’s coming and I don’t want to waste it.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So both of you were in that house? Bueno. You two don’t waste no time.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Believing that it was morally indefensible to waste any part of an animal that has been shot for food, McCandless spent six days toiling to preserve what he had killed before it spoiled. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the next minute he would be warning my mother not to “waste money on school materials, because an education was a worthless thing to have as a black man.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could waste time feeling bad about it later; but, for now, my mind had gotten a whiff of hope, and it wasn’t about to let it escape through a parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s my fault, this waste of her time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess what I’ll miss most are the wasted opportunities to live my life and the lost potential to make great friends with everyone I sat next to for four years. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But, Dad,” said Fadi, “you don’t understand. I wasted fifty dollars and didn’t win the tickets to India.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And we would waste the last moments laughing at a stranger, because we were already strangers to one another. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was only trying to make a point about me wasting food, so of course, she eventually gave me my real dinner. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Jessie took one prong off the nail of one lemon so as not to waste valuable citric acids, then laid her project out on a tray, and they brought their gifts upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"But I didn't want to waste a drop." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I felt it would be a waste of time and money. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing he could do now, but still it was a mistake and a hideous waste. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I done wasted my time worryin’ ’bout Biddy and being scared of boys. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

People have been using human waste as fertilizer for centuries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely Earth Mother is offended that the Ugly One would place seeds into her. They won’t grow! Don’t waste our precious kernels by contaminating them with your hand!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

People wasted it and even gave it away. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Physical therapists worked his arms and legs to keep the muscles from wasting away, but something vital had gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elinor wrinkled her nose as if such an idea were too ridiculous for her to waste a single word on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Slowly, we are working our way towards that treacherous past, the horrible crime, the waste of young lives, the throbbing heart of the wound. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that’s a useless, almost a foolish gesture, a complete waste of energy and time?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Of course you did! Now what is it you want, Miss Honey? Why are you wasting my time?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Having wasted a lot of time worrying aloud about Apparition, Ron was now struggling to finish a viciously difficult essay for Snape that Harry and Hermione had already completed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the more days that passed and the more north we got, seemed like Ma’s idea ’bout bumbly bees and ants wasn’t as much a waste of time as I thought at first. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“We most certainly would not. We’ve already wasted enough time on her, and she’s the reason we have the League after us, too.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The mistakes I made, the pain I endured, the time I wasted were now the smallest part of me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

These communities desperately need their young men to be holding down jobs and supporting their families, rather than wasting away in prison cells. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The way Dad had explained it, big boats like the Coral Queen are supposed to pump their toilet waste from onboard holding tanks into a sealed vat onshore. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My hand shakes as I shield my eyes from the sun and scan the wasted landscape around me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste their lives, Katniss. It’s too late for them. Look!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t waste firewood to heat up yesterday’s coffee or maybe it was day-before-yesterday’s coffee. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he was not watching the ocean now, or not the ocean that Vetch saw, a waste of heaving water to the rim of the sky. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just some room full of pooled waste oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t waste my breath telling you how wrong it is to disappear and reappear as you do,” the gentleman fairy told Lucinda. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been trying to find you all day—” I started, but he didn’t waste any time talking. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Again the wars were ‘inevitable’ and this time there were atomic weapons, so that mankind could no longer live through its torment to the inevitable wasting away of inevitability.—And positronic robots came. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Matt, who didn’t bother about being good, thought it a waste of time to worry about faults. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They invited us in, sat us at the kitchen table, and wasted no time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The cars remained, as did piles of garbage and human waste. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mother avoids the subdivision as if it were a toxic waste dump. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about their wasted bodies being fed to incinerators because people they didn’t know hated them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to need you to focus. Best not to waste your time on any political movements or whatever is going on over there,” he said, nodding in Stephanie’s direction. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Plato urged astronomers to think about the heavens, but not to waste their time observing them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, baby. I have something better. My prized possession. I don’t even wear it because I’m afraid I’ll lose it cleaning someone’s room, but that seems like a silly waste, doesn’t it?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I was thus firmly urged not to waste more time with my harebrained scheme. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The adulation of my peers below has been a waste of hours. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He hollers at me. Says I’m wasting my time in bed.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Haba, I will cut this line if you keep wasting my time,” the operator said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Is that what you wasted your drone on?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To say, If you’ve been wondering whether my leaving has caused T. Ray to examine his heart, or change his ways, don’t waste your time. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They get murdered for not getting on Craigslist fast enough and wasting my time.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn’t waste their time with them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Over those several hours he tried talking himself into just flying home and being done with the whole thing, but he knew he couldn’t just let his long trip be wasted. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to go on dates with anyone. It’s a terrible idea and a huge waste of time and—” “Honey,” my mom said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Milo knew that there was not one moment to waste. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When yellow fever returned to Philadelphia the next summer, Washington wasted no time in removing Martha, himself, and the rest of his household—along with his official papers!—to that safe location again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

To Katie, middle school is a waste of time, so she takes more classes than she needs to and does extra credit the way the rest of us drink water. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside number 402, I found an old woman who told me right away she had wasted her time waiting for me all week. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When seasickness thinned the ranks of the diners, extra desserts were laid out, and Louie, who had sturdy sea legs, let nothing go to waste. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It strikes me that my own reluctance to sing, my own dismissal of music might not really be that I think it's a waste of time. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a waste of time unless I focus on nutritional balance and...” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I want to do now is go home and figure out how to waste time until trick-or-treaters start showing up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. Look, we’re wasting time. We need to get into Mr. X’s apartment. To see what the key opens. I have a feeling it’s important.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“They’re not sitting around getting wasted, denying the existence of God or anything. My dad considers himself a believer. But he also believes in enjoying a glass of wine now and again.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You have to be rich to waste time going on escapades at night instead of catching up on precious sleep.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After the tail was cut off—as a trophy for the conqueror—nothing was left to waste: the meat was dried, the heart smoked, the intestines made into sausages. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tucker Mouse had volunteered to let them use the drain pipe, but Chester didn’t want to eat amid all the waste paper and rubbish his friend had collected. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This may seem like a waste of time, but it's critical. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, “We don’t need more gizmos and gadgets. Oh, such waste of money.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s not a waste of my time, Mr. Kellerman,” I say. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

To him it was simply a waste, for the African was inherently ignorant and lazy and no amount of education could remedy that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence I felt it all unraveling, the audience waking with the dream unfinished, all my work ruined, wasted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Does this waste have no end to it?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All week, she’s been complaining about buying me school supplies, saying she doesn’t want to waste the gas. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Roz wasted no time and spoke her next words in the friendliest voice she could muster. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just like she would never waste her time worrying about the past. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and church bells all over ring out the Angelus and Nurse O’Halloran weeps for the waste of a dress, that child still in there and me in me finery. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She smoothed out our clothes, a wasted effort, and helped me twist my hair into a crown. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The socks she wanted to wear were not to be found, but she wasted no time in hunting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One writer called the park “remote and repulsive”; another, a “sandy waste of unredeemed and desert land.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Your next school term begins in a few days," she said, "so we don't have any time to waste." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“A lot of wizards think it’s a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick,” said Fred, “but we feel they’re skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If that’s how you want to waste away, it’s all right with me,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caton had done himself especially proud on one of them, cutting all the waste metal off it until the converging/diverging angles could be seen from the outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maya had no idea if this was true, but she wasn’t going to waste time arguing with Lauren about it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He called it a waste of woman power. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“What do you want? A thank-you for shoving me in another hospital, wasting more of my time?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Vatete's husband glanced at the wasted girl as she tottered to a log and sat down. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured if Haley Daley wasted time retracing steps he and Andrew had already taken, she would find nothing new and become less of a threat. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The thought would come that this was then a dead man that I hauled across the hills, and that my luck and his life had gone to waste after all. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't waste my time with trash," said Red, getting up and walking away. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squire shrugged "Nor me, but you won't stop it. Only waste a good arrow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Eyes closed, he let himself go deeper into the waste, just letting the field take him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought the designer jacket when I got my running shoes and I thought it was a waste of money. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

No chemicals in the juice and no ink wasted on decorative labels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the battlements of their castle at Camelot, during an interval of peace between the two Gaelic Wars, the young king of England was standing with his tutor, looking across the purple wastes of evening. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Finally. I’m sick of wasting time on things that don’t matter.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And after he ran off, the Moon Lady wasted not one moment to find the peach and eat it! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. ‘Ghosts are transparent.’” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mark didn’t want to waste any more time, but he knew Alec was right. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

No one here is yelling at me about wasting water. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The privileged, the few, the Junior Marthas have been laid waste by mononucleosis, leaving Heather all by herself. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was something a little sluggish in his casual movements, in his voice—almost as though he was saving himself for emergencies, not wasting himself on every casual encounter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, I can’t believe how much time I wasted believing she was living any other way. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to waste any of the small amount of alcohol for the stove on something that didn’t need cooking. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a whole lot of work for what’s going to be the biggest waste of time,” I say. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hina puts her hand on my arm and interjects, “I did support her decision. I do. Maya has a talent. You don’t want her to waste a gift from God, now do you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just hurry, is all I’m saying,” Thomas said, hoping all that effort to save Alby hadn’t been wasted. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“And they were harming no one. Why waste your money on killing animals who don’t need killing?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you want me to slap you before you inhale it? Why are you letting the thing evaporate and waste?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The new organization wasted little time putting Vivian’s message into action. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” said Citra, “you pulled us out of our lives for some random art lesson? Isn’t that a waste of your valuable time?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And finally, riddle three: ‘Everything I do goes to waste.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“For all you guys know, I could be really good at it. It’s a waste of time to make me wait.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It moved in me like one of those floods that devastate counties, tearing everything down, tearing children from their parents and lovers from each other, and making everything an unrecognizable waste. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“No, Jake. I was having a brainstorm. You don’t waste time writing things down when there’s a storm raging in your brain!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Like it? She got spitting mad. She can get mad sometimes. She took Aron’s fountain pen and threw it on the sidewalk and tramped on it. She said she’d wasted half her life on Aron.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That this part of my nature was wasted on Call didn’t matter. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she righted herself, she didn’t waste any time turning around and running to school as fast as her still-sore ankle would carry her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She wasted no more words upon him except to refuse his gold. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard white folks say that colored didn’t need school, that school would be a waste ’cause the colored couldn’t learn their reading anyhow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a waste of time since I wasn’t going to be there much longer. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Hideo had wasted no time making sure I will be in the first game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He argued that it would be far more efficient if workers were a few steps from the factory instead of wasting precious time marching the two and a half miles between Emalia and the camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I know all this, but when Alice tells me I shouldn’t waste my time, I get angry and tell her to leave me alone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t waste too much of your battery,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Daylight’s wasting, Miss Teen Dreamers. Let’s not stand here jibber-jabbering,” Taylor said and set off in the direction of the smoke. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Besides, it would be a shame to waste all this delightful snow.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was getting her nowhere, and wasting energy. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"Here. Take this for the food I wasted. If you separate the notes, they'll dry out, I think." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Momma was upset because all of her notebook planning had been wasted. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I knew you'd be a bigger nuisance than you're worth. You have a knack for wasting my soldiers' time. Not to mention the soldiers of several other commanders." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She often said that they were a big, fat waste of time. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

"Must you waste our time with every rumor the fools care to tell?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He claimed it was a waste of power to use the electric lamps just for him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was too clearly a waste, and the grackles set out at once to remedy the situation. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“As for the whole drug thing, there’s no need to waste precious time. Really. Unless cigarettes count. Drugs and me? Not a good mix. Believe me, I’ve tried.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"A dog,” said Dan, "would be a friend. He could eat scraps of food. He would save us waste and would save motions for the garbage man.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days went by, Kathleen began to waste away, for she only truly lived when she slept at night, entombed in the prison of smoke from the magical wreath. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t so easy, and if you have waste too you can lose money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I already told you that. She couldn't have left through that door. And I already looked through Mirjam's hiding place. You're wasting time doing things I already did." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Donovan urged eagerly, “Don’t waste time. It won’t be long before they get through, and the next blast may get us.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I walked forward till I was close beside him, anxious not to waste one second of whatever time I might have with him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing goes to waste; even grass upon which blood has been spilt will be eaten. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Harry,” she said wearily, “it’s a pile of utter rubbish. This can’t be what the sign really means. This must just be his weird take on it. What a waste of time.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A lazy man, Dad believed, always makes the best use of his Therbligs because he is too indolent to waste motions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Painful shame gripped Cole as waste slipped from his body and a raw stench filled the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

What a criminal waste of a blue book, too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wasted four whole years with him—from the age of eighteen, when she started working at the office, to the day she died. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or is the interview a painful and discouraging waste of time for the black applicant—that is, an economic penalty for having a white- sounding name? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So what was the use in wasting time at something you knew you stunk at—like practicing the oboe—when you could be discovering your one true Talent? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Danny always spent his mornings studying Talmud, so I decided that rather than waste the day I would go over to the college library and see if I could find something on experimental psychology. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If I had deliberately planned on nearly getting myself killed just to help him out, it would of been a waste of time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His skull rang in the silence, and he watched shock-still as the storm of hot dirt and rocks and branches and weeds rained down upon him and then wasted itself to a veil of grit. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This way was much crueler, making me face the waste of my life before me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always arranged our weekends so we'd never regret wasting our time in any way. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“For treasure. Like this. Glass or metal scraps are best. The waste mart man will even buy cardboard and cloth if they’re not too tattered.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And if they hadn’t come back, there might be food going to waste. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Charles felt strongly that he had no time to waste. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we shook off the giggles and wasted most of the wine with spit takes, he turned to me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Minho had taught Thomas that speaking only wasted energy, so he concentrated on his pace and his breaths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Due south the red waste stretched on and on, he reported, until it ended an a bleak shore beside the poison water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t strike me as the type to waste time on gossip. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Unable to work, to read or build or improve himself, he would waste away here. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I've already wasted too much time,” he says, easing the car up close behind the one ahead of us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe because he was due back at Harvard in a month, we wasted no time being casual. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The boys at the post office say sympathy telegrams are a waste of time. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I held the skate edge and scraped it against the locker, over the words, and in a few seconds it was a barren waste of squiggles. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They could be aimed to cover a target area and wasted anything within sixty meters in front of them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or ’cause he was so wasted he didn’t know what the hell was happening anymore. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One thing she did not know was that the gang’s way of life had captivated me wholly, particularly their philosophy on school: they hated it and considered an education a waste of time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t believe in wasting nothing, so he chawed every single piece! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Why should I waste my time solving Garrison’s game when I’m fairly certain this girl has already done so? Or is close to completing it, at the very least.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Y’all waste no time. Okay, she can come. Just...check in with Ms. Paul first, okay?” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I love her dearly, but I can't live with her for a day without feeling my whole life is wasting away. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then, through the musk of animals and the stink of their waste, he smelled the clean tang of salt water. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In addition to human waste, the byproducts from manufacturers, such as tanneries, and refuse from the markets seeped into the drinking water. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The article didn’t waste any space describing the records of the lesser teams in the county. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please. I highly doubt Newton wasted his time on this drivel.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“I have led you to civilization through the uncharted wastes of Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He said I am wasting water. Is it his water? Now if the plants die, what do I tell Mr. Richard?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’d better be glad he didn’t waste money. You’re the one who gets upset when some quick money has to be raised.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

This is like a dissection, seeing the inside parts that let the snake eat and breathe and make energy and waste. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They regulate lots of its functions—filtering blood, producing hormones, helping to control blood pressure, and removing waste from the body. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Violet and Queenie donated a flowered rug that had been laying around in their extra room going to waste, and Mabelee sewed blue-and-white polka dot curtains for the windows with fringe balls along the hem. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we had time to waste, I’d faint,” Maria sighed, shining the flashlight into the new opening. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to waste my time being sad about it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A yard below, a poisonous brew of human waste, garbage, and chemical runoff bubbles by us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The stench of human waste, urine, rotting wounds, and strong rubbing alcohol surrounds me, permeating my clothes, skin, and hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's our direction, judging by what the Raven said," he thought, "so I'll just make sure of it, so as not to waste any time when the others turn up." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Right up until a few days before the end of the month it really looked as if Halloween was going to be completely wasted. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those people I loved, dead, and we are discussing the next Hunger Games in an attempt to avoid wasting life. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The soldier was shouting, “Don’t waste your bullet! I say one vandal one bullet with immediate effect!” while the little boys gathered around him, taunting him, laughing at him, singing praise names for him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t afford to waste any more time, Snape might even now be playing Fluffy to sleep. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“And you are always worried about people wasting time,” he said to Tock. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A direct impact on one galaxy by another can send the constituent stars pouring and careening through intergalactic space, a galaxy wasted. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m wasting my time appealing to you, he reflected. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if whole armies were on the march, though for the most part they were hidden by the reeks and fumes drifting from the fens and wastes beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This overwhelming musk of animal waste and chemicals—almost like the odor of salt water and unwashed bodies. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It did. There was close to a ton. It still makes me sick when I think of all those bananas floating away and going to waste when they were mine for the picking.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, though, he did not waste much time thinking of Ben’s words. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing that happened was that his mother came by and told Kitty that she was wasting her time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bringing fortune to our house! Making Fruitless Mountain bloom! You’re always wishing to do impossible things! Stop believing stories and stop wasting your time.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to waste time on questions. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The beds of the stream were almost dry, a bare waste of shingles and grey sand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But five minutes after acknowledging his wasted potential, Colin Singleton was behind the wheel of his lengthy gray Oldsmobile known as Satan's Hearse. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He had wasted precious reserves in unnecessary talk and encounters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I shook my head at the time I had wasted with Sam. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every time I hear it, I want to jerk the phone out of her hand, tell her to quit wasting her time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We tell them their friends are “no good,” that they will “amount to nothing,” that they are “wasting their lives,” and that “they’re nothing but criminals.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was just a swamp hermit’s house, and they were wasting time. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And again: “The suit, Edward, the suit. Think about it. It may be the last useful thing anybody ever made. You’re not going to waste it on a visit to your dead wife.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ms. Banks knew I was a bit wasted and it was apparent she was prepared to tolerate it, especially since she’d booked me up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t let me waste away here. I want to go home.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Pulling back each of Fig’s ears and peeking inside, Dr. Spires babbled on about chemical waste and blood and dysfunction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Remember,” he whispered, “you need to pay me back for wasting a ton of time in finding Anne of Green Gables.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Foragers usually didn’t waste much time thinking about next month or next summer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, he certainly doesn't waste time, Victor thought as he squeezed himself out of the phone booth. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But all the surface of the waste looked level. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The face of Elnora came to my mind’s eye, lamenting the waste of all her teaching. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“And you wasted your youth the same way.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how a person even begins to go about testing a hypothesis like the one I’d formed, and I knew I didn’t have any time to waste. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, it was not the Union army that laid waste to the city. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m not good at a lot of things—like lay-ups, free throws, jump shots—but I can waste money.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And every week we waste, more of my lung function wastes away too. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If their parents had been home, they would have told them to shut the door because they were letting all the air conditioning out and didn’t they know how much money they were wasting? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I keep my hands light, fingers to my gun—but I’m not about to waste a bullet unless I absolutely have to. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Where I have been, and where Galahad is, it is a waste of time to have ‘manners.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The waste man didn’t take away everything we had,” Arul said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No sense letting meat waste if the power goes out.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Unpacking even just the few things in her brown suitcase always seemed a waste of time to Gilly. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

One we saw didn’t waste time to circle. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to stop wasting money going backwards and forwards to London on pointless train journeys. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending all her life at Towac, she didn’t need to be wasting her time there, in the middle of nowhere, some place worse than the reservation she had left. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did the Witch waste any time gazing up at them; they saw her set off northward down the slope of the hill. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The trek across countless miles of wasted land and crime-riddled streets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Swift’s guiding principle for success was simple and constant: eliminate waste to increase profits. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every second I waste is a second he is rotting in prison. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In so doing, he did not withhold his shot, but he did waste it, thereby honoring his preduel pledge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about real anything, Knife? A bowl of toxic waste is more likely. Well, go ahead. You devote your life to shortening mine, but why should I care? I’m better off dead.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t really want to waste time sleeping on our last day of summer—our last chance to have one more adventure before you-know-what starts.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Flattered him. Told him the conditioning would help me win another hoops championship. Told him the basketball coach didn’t agree. Said ‘Fencing is a waste.’” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If they wasted time searching through Alaska looking for the giant’s lair, Gaea’s armies would destroy the Romans... and Percy’s other friends, wherever they were. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta’s life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Someday he would He in his own waste and be eaten by maggots. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

If all those cells were in fact HeLa, it would mean that millions of dollars had been wasted, and researchers who’d found that various cells behaved differently in culture could have some explaining to do. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t waste your breath yelling,” he said after a moment of watching me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But,” Ainsley protests, “we need time for real homework. We shouldn’t waste it on made-up projects based on pointless ‘Dear Diary’ entries.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“That dont begin it. How about the dime or fifteen cents you’ll spend for a dam two cent box of candy or something. How about the time you’re wasting right now, listening to that band.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the thing exploded, jettisoning an amazing amount of tunnel waste directly at the unfortunate manservant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t log it. That’s a waste of time. Won’t no punishment come out of it for him, ’cause he’s a bug. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sip, he says, and don’t waste strength moving around because it’s impossible to predict how much longer we will befloating. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any fear to waste on hypotheticals. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The quilt is gorgeous, but it would be ruined in my humble dwelling. I’ll not let you waste your generosity on me; I would not know what to do with such niceties.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This time you don’t waste a moment waiting for more instructions. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I know. You may also ask me one question. But please, don’t waste your question asking me, ‘Where is the alternate exit?’ because I do not know.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It was worth wasting a hundred or so of their highest-level avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was no time to waste in fear or doubt. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Peasants like Will’s father suffered if their strips of land were far apart, because hours of precious daylight were wasted as they zigzagged from field to field. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t run the place. We just didn’t have time to waste on getting it all straightened out. We had a train to catch.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of su­pernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z