How to Use waste away in a Sentence

waste away

verb
  • Others plow my street and take human waste away.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Unable to hunt, their bodies waste away.
    — Katie Nixon, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Funding cliff The children wasting away, day by day, don’t have time to wait for funding gaps to be filled.
    — Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For more than 21 hours each day, their bodies are still weightless, continuing to waste away.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Orion's toilet uses air flow to pull solid and fluid waste away from the body and into containers.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The group grew physically weak, wasting away until there was little left of their corporeal selves but skin and bones.
    — Namir Khaliq, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Gang Green began the night with excellent field position, but it was wasted away after gaining just one first down.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
  • But the question reverberates for a man who’s spent years wasting away, always watching his back, never looking forward.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Her muscles had wasted away from prolonged starvation and confinement in one position.
    — Kelli Bender, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Wong was born with spinal muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic condition that causes muscles to become weak and waste away.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Even though Sanders isn't expected to see playing time in his rookie season, the Browns are not simply sitting him and letting his first year waste away.
    — Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Or perhaps the University of Virginia product simply needs a change of scenery after wasting away on one of the league's worst teams last season.
    — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Jarrett Stidham’s pass on the play fell incomplete and the chance to put crucial points on the scoreboard in a clear defensive battle was wasted away by the Broncos.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The Artemis 2 astronauts use foot restraints to help stay in place while using the toilet, which uses airflow to draw solid waste away from the body and into a collection device.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • People imagine everyone on a GLP-1 is starving themselves, wasting away, or too sick from side effects to eat…and that’s simply not true.
    — Self Staff, SELF, 9 Jan. 2026
  • On the West Coast, San Francisco and Los Angeles are diverting about 80% of their waste away from landfills.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Astronauts traveling to Mars will have to survive for months on a tiny spaceship with minimal food, endure microgravity where their bones and muscles waste away, and suffer from cosmic radiation bombardment.
    — Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer brings us the bored Adam Glenn (aka Prince Adam/He-Man — played by Nicholas Galitzine) wasting away in his corporate America cubicle.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
  • After some time, Hamlin emerged from his car and was greeted by his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates, relishing the fact his sixth attempt at a title wasted away despite leading 208 of the 319 laps after starting on the pole.
    — Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • This causes the muscles to weaken and waste away, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2025

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