misspent
Example Sentences
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She documented her salad days of debt and dating in New York in “My Misspent Youth.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019
Ms. Daum’s 2001 essay collection, “My Misspent Youth,” arrived before the Internet launched a thousand candid writing careers.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2014
Essays like “Matricide” stand firmly on their own, but as she did in “My Misspent Youth,” Ms. Daum has written an introduction here that defensively and needlessly attempts to predigest the collection.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2014
“Not What It Used to Be,” for example, hearkens back to Daum’s first collection, My Misspent Youth, in its elegy for lost time.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2014
The line under his last appearance is "The End of a Misspent Life."
From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon
