fritter
Example Sentences
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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
Arsenal had led the Premier League by as many as nine points, only to fritter away its advantage and briefly fall out of first in late April.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 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
And here’s the thing: It’s easy to fritter away our power, but it would be a decades-long struggle to regain influence once it’s gone.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025
“Frances. Let’s go, buddy. Let’s not fritter away the best part of the day here….Let’s go, buddy.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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