How to Use waste away in a Sentence
waste away
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Of course government won’t want to scrap a tax even if the golden goose is wasting away.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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Packing on a few pounds, rather than wasting away, was seen as proof of robustness.
—Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
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And, of course, think twice before wasting away in Margaritaville — or at least wash your hands.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
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This seems like more of a Facebook competitor, where if people go to your site to be entertained, why not also give them a few playable games to waste away the hours with?
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 June 2023
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Quotable Poop problem: Climbers on Mount Everest will now have to bring poop bags and carry their waste away with them from the world’s highest peak in a bid to tackle pollution.
—Daniel Wine, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
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Rather than perfectly good food wasting away in a waste basket somewhere, TGTG users can stop by said businesses and pick up the food for themselves.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
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At just 25 years old, Baltimore wanted the outfield prospect to get consistent playing time in Norfolk rather than wasting away on the big league bench.
—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2023
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The lack of aid has left children like 11-year-old Nour al-Huda Mohammad marooned, wasting away in a hospital bed without enough food or medicine.
—Lauren Weber, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
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Kansas City’s going to be wasting away in Margaritaville and enjoying the Barbie world in the near future.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
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The buildup of twisted tau deposits also destroys surrounding nerve cells and eventually wastes away vast swaths of brain tissue.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
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Starvation wasted away the hundreds of flightless little blue penguins that washed up on New Zealand beaches at half their typical weight.
—Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
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Here is an incomplete list of things strangers on the internet have claimed Kate looks in the amateur snapshot: Painfully thin, painfully slim, wasting away, not well, sickly, and emaciated.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2023
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Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
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Sean was a 44-year old former salesman, church volunteer and father of two whose severe neurological disorder left him wasting away, unable to speak or care for himself.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
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Then, after his own son becomes collateral damage, Season 2 finds the devastated former judge in prison, not talking or eating — just wasting away.
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
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Story continues below advertisement Twelve miles away, a rural clinic with 13 beds was uncomfortably still, the children silent, a telltale sign their bodies were wasting away.
—Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
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