- a desert island.
- a godforsaken wilderness crossroads.
- a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste.
- a wild stretch of land.
- After her husband died, she just pined away.
- He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends.
- if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste.
- mindless dissipation of natural resources.
- much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers.
- Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world.
- the barrens of central Africa.
- the double agent was neutralized.
- The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion.
- The mafia liquidated the informer.
- the trackless wastes of the desert.
- The treatment emaciated him.
- the wastefulness of missed opportunities.
- The water wastes back into the ocean.
- they collect the waste once a week.
- waste a joke on an unappreciative audience.
- waste heat.
- waste not, want not.
- waste places.
- We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer.
- You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree.