"A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
The two men exchanged greetings but wasted little time on small talk.
It's pathetic that one man could waste so many opportunities.
You're too good a man with your hands to waste them on produce.
"My men wasted a lot of effort digging those trenches."
The man who had died - a waste - and his wife, as it now seemed, wasted because of him.
It wasn't the kind of offer a man wastes a lot of time thinking over.
The man had wasted no time in shielding himself behind a tree of his own.
The man had wasted no time in consolidating his position.
I don't see why a man would waste his time totin' old papers or whatever all the way from Mexico.