How to Use waste away in a Sentence

waste away

phrasal verb

• Of course government won’t want to scrap a tax even if the golden goose is wasting away.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Packing on a few pounds, rather than wasting away, was seen as proof of robustness.
  — Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• And, of course, think twice before wasting away in Margaritaville — or at least wash your hands.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024