wastage

Example Sentences

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There was the Timeout Wastage Fiasco, and the Non-Call Incident, and meantime Lawrence Tynes’ field goals were scraping paint off the goal posts — albeit the inside of the goal posts.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2012

Wastage like that leaves a bitter taste, but there's no such wastage in amateur films, generally because they have nothing to waste.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2010

Chapter II. of this section of the review bears the headline "Wastage of German Effectives."

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

Wastage of Child Life, as exemplified by Conditions in Lancashire.

From The History of the Fabian Society by Pease, Edward R.

Wastage and brush have been carefully burned up during snowfall.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)