wasting away
Example Sentences
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Retirees can easily find themselves wasting away free time on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The retired Canadian insurance adviser was 93, and "was wasting away" after a long battle with prostate cancer.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
The faces of that other world are with him: Jenna, the traumatised little girl wasting away, spectral pale on a hospital bed, while her mother shows Sam a phone video of the child's last birthday.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2024
It's a country that's become thoroughly militarized and so is slowly wasting away, marked increasingly by fear, deprivation, and unhappiness.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023
Tall, bullet scarred, small-eyed, and jittery, he seemed to be wasting away from within—hence his nickname, Slim.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
