"waste" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At the same time it afforded a public opportunity for emulation in what Veblen would have termed conspicuous waste.
- The custom of conspicuous waste, to show how wealthy the possessor was.
- These days conspicuous waste is largely in the eye of the beholder.
- Like so many edifices dedicated to human vanity, the palace was a conspicuous waste of space and resources.
- The hollow, throwaway long box had become a symbol of conspicuous waste, and it had to go.
- Have you ever seen such conspicuous waste before??
- It was a conspicuous example of conspicuous waste.
- It was the most conspicuous waste Tony had ever seen.
- The cylinder was nearly empty: conspicuous waste in a starship.
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