waste
Example Sentences
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A scheme to encourage climbers to bring their waste down from Mount Everest is being scrapped - with Nepalese authorities telling the BBC it has been a failure.
From BBC
They noted that stimulants might have a restorative role by activating the brain's waste clearing system during wakefulness.
From Science Daily
Instead, these materials end up in mine waste, also known as tailings, which must be stored and monitored to prevent environmental harm.
From Science Daily
Nothing went to waste and everything found a purpose.
From Salon
Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.