wastrel
Example Sentences
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Spurlock understood that his vantage would be temporary; the Wastrel had been knocked down, not out.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
I knew that I was not in reality the solitary survivor of the Wastrel.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
He tore it down just as the Wastrel rose, wavering slightly.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
So, bloody but unbeaten, weak and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
The Wastrel must have gone to the bottom near by, for incoming tides from time to time deposited on my shore strange and satirical scraps of flotsam.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
Vocabulary lists containing wastrel
A Room of One's Own
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Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 2
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Selected Short Stories of H.G. Wells
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