frittering
Example Sentences
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Fisher and Day can’t even secure jobs, stuck literally and metaphorically frittering away their youth in the back seat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“It’s not that we don’t have the money. It’s that we don’t like frittering it away.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
All he’s doing with this feral pawing for a message is frittering that away.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 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
It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
