| waste time | 27.85 | And quit wasting time. | ||
| waste money | 10.73 | I wasted money. | ||
| waste chance | 5.66 | Cal wasted its chances. | ||
| waste opportunity | 5.60 | The Giants wasted opportunities. | ||
| waste energy | 2.70 | Wasted energy, Barry! | ||
| waste resource | 2.30 | You do not waste scarce resources. | ||
| waste effort | 1.65 | Yet the effort was wasted. | ||
| waste lot | 1.65 | But we wasted a lot of energy. | ||
| waste talent | 1.51 | I wasted my talent. | ||
| waste water | 1.45 | Lawns waste water. | ||
| waste life | 1.32 | Wasted lives. | ||
| waste word | 1.18 | Matt wasted no words. | ||
| waste billion | 1.05 | Before the bubble burst, these industries wasted billions of dollars. | ||
| waste million | 1.05 | Not a baseball team wasting millions. | ||
| waste fund | 0.99 | We are wasting funds when we can just hire locals to do the job. | ||
| waste space | 0.79 | Wasted space. | ||
| waste minute | 0.59 | She told us never to waste a minute. | ||
| waste vote | 0.59 | It dawned on her that she had wasted her vote. | ||
| waste amount | 0.53 | To get a part, workers often had to climb ladders, wasting enormous amounts of time. | ||
| waste breath | 0.53 | Will he listen to me or will I just be wasting my breath? |