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
Then, after his own son becomes collateral damage, Season 2 finds the devastated former judge in prison, not talking or eating — just wasting away.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023
I love her dearly, but I can't live with her for a day without feeling my whole life is wasting away.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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