1.   Unfortunately, the burglary, which he committed while still a teen, was but a prologue to a wasted life of crime.

2.   He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping, booze and drugs.

3.   An entire wasted life, the stuff of which long Russian novels were made, is in this monologue.

4.   A wasted life?

5.   But Norman Fontenelle, drunk, set the house on fire, and all but one of the children eventually died miserably or led wasted lives.

6.   But this time around, Ms. Amaral follows her anti-heroine Macabea through a landscape littered with the detritus of popular culture, wasted lives and urban dysfunction.

7.   He was proud of the way I saw him but sad about his wasted life.

8.   The coarse black hair is mostly gray, and his words are tinged with regret over what he calls his wasted life.

9.   The toll in wasted lives is incalculable.

10.   We have experienced AIDS in the groans of wasted lives.