1.   Will he listen to me or will I just be wasting my breath?

2.   She was wasting her breath, she saw, for Ven was already out of the car and coming round to the passenger door.

3.   Friends who urged her not to rule out another run were wasting their breath.

4.   In the fictional film everybody wastes their breath trying to dissuade Fitzcarraldo, and so it was with Herzog on the set.

5.   Nor should we waste breath speculating about the formation of a coalition government in Israel as an excuse to delay elections.

6.   O.J. Simpson might say the same thing after his wrongful death trial, but he could be wasting his breath.

7.   To tell an atheist there is a God would be wasting my breath.

8.   Yet he also said the thing no one wants to hear and no coach should waste his breath on.