How to Use waster in a Sentence

waster

noun

• He thinks every meeting is a big time waster.
• He has been called a waster of taxpayers' money.
• Start with your biggest time waster and build from there.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Or will this become a passing fad and be seen as a time-waster?
  — Blair Currie, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• The six-month battle over health care has been a time waster and a tone setter.
  — Dan Balz, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2017
• The form asks for the date and time of the watering, along with the waster’s address.
  — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
• While some businesses may hold meetings daily, this can be a huge time waster.
  — Wayne Elsey, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The wasters ignored her on her way out, all of them still standing patiently in line.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 8 July 2018
• Having to run back to the home center after the work gets underway is a huge time waster.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 13 Feb. 2023
• Yet a game cast and third-act momentum upgrade the movie to an acceptable time-waster.
  — Jon Niccum, kansascity.com, 15 June 2017
• Engineers love to avoid this power waster if at all possible.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• Weekend time-wasters Per usual, there are plenty of free games to go around this weekend.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 1 Mar. 2019
• Dining out No list of top money wasters would be complete without dining out.
  — The Motley Fool, 4 May 2018
• On a per-person basis, Americans are in the top ranks of global food wasters.
  — Corinne Iozzio, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2024
• One money-waster is a lack of governance over cloud infrastructure.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The lack of clarity is a huge time waster for everyone and can be a productivity killer.
  — Liz Bentley, Marie Claire, 12 July 2017
• Texting topped the list of non-work time wasters on the phone, followed by checking the weather, reading the news, playing games, and shopping.
  — Amy Capetta, Redbook, 13 June 2017
• The dominant narrative of the last decades has been that social housing is full of wasters and scroungers who can’t get on the housing ladder.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2017
• The results run the gamut from 100-hour epics to mindless mobile phone time-wasters, and everything in between.
  — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2019
• At least a remote time waster isn’t simultaneously wasting everyone else’s time in the process.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
• Leaky toilet tanks are also huge water wasters; a faulty flush mechanism in the tank allows water to slowly and silently leak into the bowl.
  — Joesph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2012
• While this structure may have been influential in the past, many now see it as a time-waster and a hindrance to organizational progress.
  — Tinna Jackson, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Include categories for deep work, admin tasks, communication, and time wasters.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Food waste contributes 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the United States is the world’s biggest waster.
  — Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2024
• Show me exactly how to reorganize my day to focus on growth drivers first, which of my tasks are secretly time-wasters dressed as important work, and how to say no to everything else.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• Anne-Marie Bonneau, another big-time zero-waster who goes by @zerowastechef on social media, is beloved in the movement for her practical approach.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 30 July 2019
• One big time-waster many of us don't take stock of is typing, especially considering there are auto-fill shortcuts out there that can quickly fix typos, complete words and phrases, and auto-fill forms.
  — NBC News, 3 Dec. 2019
• When the city of Sacramento decided to crack down on water wasters in late March, inspectors handed out more than 350 citations in less than two days.
  — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
• For just five bucks a month, a subscription to the service will give you access to nearly a hundred games, bringing everything from small time-wasters to indie-game darlings to all of your Apple devices.
  — Wired, 21 Sep. 2019
• Addicting Games was my go-to time waster; the simplicity and fleeting nature of flash gaming was something only truly appreciated by the adolescent me.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2019