fritter away

Example Sentences

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I clear my schedule and hole up in the library, only to fritter away hours doing everything but writing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

But in recent years, that shame has started to fritter away - at least in some quarters.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025

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

One of the children's main arguments was that the trustees never should have allowed their father to fritter away the principal of a dynastic trust on a money-losing newspaper.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2021

“You don’t mess around like that. You just don’t fritter away all your luck.”

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien