How to Use waste of time in a Sentence

waste of time

noun phrase

• Was this all just a waste of time?
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
• That's, for me, a waste of time.
  — Joelle Goldstein, USA Today, 1 June 2026
• Just a giant waste of time and breath.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
• What a waste of time and money.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Who said watching movies is a waste of time?
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
• Jail doesn’t scare or change them and rehab is a waste of time.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Want to just tell me this was pointless and stupid and a waste of time?
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 6 June 2023
• Running can be selfish and a waste of time.
  — Nicholas Thompson, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
• So the overthinking is a waste of time.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
• Both my wife and my girlfriend are pissed at me and say this is a waste of time.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
• This is a waste of time—shaking with ice does the muddling for you.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
• But for you, this lack of transparency can be a huge waste of time.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
• Never mind that even his friends told him fighting would be a waste of time.
  — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• Asking a gate agent for a seat next to your sweetheart may be a waste of time.
  — Christopher Elliott, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
• What a waste of time waiting for someone else to approve of you.
  — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2025
• Choosing the wrong test may be useless, and a waste of time and money.
  — Brandon Peters, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2024
• And really, making plans seems like a waste of time.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2026
• Couldn't think of something more boring and banal and a waste of time.
  — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
• Couldn’t think of something more boring and banal and a waste of time.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
• Making a film about the band any other way seems like a complete waste of time.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
• Looked at in a certain light, this can make quite a lot of one’s working life seem like a waste of time.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Buying cheap gear only to replace it is a waste of time and money.
  — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2023
• Many of the news articles and blogposts about the firm may be noise and a waste of time for the board.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• His team seems to view Congress as a waste of time and energy.
  — Yuval Levin, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
• One critic called the project a waste of time for a station that gets public funding.
  — Jamey Keaten, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
• A lot of times, these meetings were a complete waste of time and travel budget.
  — Victor Erukhimov, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• So waiting to buy when interest rates drop is a waste of time, Lubeck says.
  — Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
• Anything less is a waste of time and precious taxpayer funds.
  — Ann Wagner, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
• DFLers called the discussion a waste of time as it was bound to fail.
  — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2026
• Just because a team takes a step back doesn’t mean the whole undertaking was a waste of time.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2023