fritter

Do they never have to go to the supermarket, the hardware store or fritter away the rest of the afternoon on a text thread?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

For now, however, many young workers should still be able to find positions so they can afford to fritter away their youth, as is tradition.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Last time I went, we tried the Thai corn fritter which was really good and crispy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Restaurant-delivery apps have become “an easy, and lazy, way to fritter your money away instead of investing,” Valega said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

She stuck her nose in the apple fritter and handed it over to Mona, who was hovering.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Go for the carimañolas, crisp yuca fritters stuffed with meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Faced with a chilly house, some users might then dial up the power on their heat pump - but if you do that, much of the efficiency advantage fritters away, he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

These include cinnamon sticks, filled and flavored donuts, French crullers and fritters.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025

One of the offerings: takoyaki, sold next to a colorful poster that explains takoyaki is a “beloved Japanese street food … fritters with a variety of delicious toppings.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

No one in Macún died, but many lost their belongings, poultry, pigs, milk cows, vegetable gardens, kiosks for selling fried codfish fritters, and shops where rusty old cars received one more chance at the road.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Some lines may be familiar: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”; “Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Sam Burns and Adam Scott had frittered away their overnight advantage.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Giddy with the view across central Oregon and suddenly reconnected to cell service, I frittered away my smartphone battery during a solo climb on Mount Jefferson in October 2019.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

Soon after, at 5-2, Alcaraz held two match points that he frittered away; he got broken for the first time to make it 5-3; and another match point came and went at 5-4.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

I’d frittered away the better part of a week and now that dream of a mountain had just crumbled to dust.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

The meek Eagles sputtered and stalled, brainlessly frittering a time out that might have extended the game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

All he’s doing with this feral pawing for a message is frittering that away.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

Ray plainly resents Bankman-Fried for trying to blame the bankruptcy team for frittering away FTX’s value and his claim that he tried to help Ray restructure the company but was rebuffed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

It’s hard to imagine the money you are frittering away giving you the kind of entertainment you could have with $125,000 after three decades.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

Most of the original Fragment had been destroyed by the fire, the burning pages flapping and frittering away into ash, all their words turned to dust.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee