(n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
(v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you don’t fancy the cost of what is undoubtedly a splurge stay, you can sample the glamour at its cafe-restaurant, itself a popular meeting place.
(2) Singles’ Day: Chinese to splurge $20bn in world's biggest shopping event Read more Monazahian was in London this week to speak about Bamilo, which Alexa ranks as Iran’s 17th most visited website, at the Iran Consumer Summit.
(3) An estimated £810m was spent online by British shoppers on Friday, according to internet retail experts IMRG, a figure that eclipsed the £650m splurge predicted for Cyber Monday, and potentially means Boxing Day has been usurped as the biggest shopping day of the year once store sales are taken into account.
(4) The lexicon for most retailers runs from impulse buy to splurge to treat; they prefer us to wander the aisles with our eyes wide open and our minds shut tight.
(5) So this very strong jet stream has kept this cold air locked in, and then suddenly it's been allowed to be released, sort of splurged out southwards, due to various meteorological factors.
(6) Knowing his previous work, it would be no surprise if this is how he had produced the metallic splurge.
(7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
(8) In the wake of Convergence, a giant crossover that briefly sucked all its comics into an alternate universe, DC has just launched a splurge of new titles to freshen up its line.
(9) Katie Martin (@katie_martin_FX) Barc on ceiling 'tremors': "Nervousness in the front end is driven more by fears related to a loss of liquidity than a loss of principal" October 9, 2013 Also coming up today.... a splurge of UK economic data at 9.30am (including trade and industrial production), Mario Draghi is giving a speech, Vince Cable is appearing at the Treasury committee to discuss the Royal Mail flotation, and the International Monetary Fund will release more details of its latest assessment of the World Economy.
(10) The news that Facebook has splurged $2bn (£1.2bn) on buying Oculus Rift , the world's first really viable virtual reality headset, has set off waves of plaintive snark in the world of videogames.
(11) He will probably leave fuming about 'broken promises' because they have not funded a splurge on top-quality championship players such as Marlon Harewood."
(12) The introduction of financial fair play rules means Chelsea do not intend to splurge as freely as they did earlier in the Roman Abramovich regime but when asked whether the club would be able to fork out up to £50m in the summer on a new player, Mourinho replied: "Yes, I think Chelsea can do that.
(13) Manchester United are planning another summer transfer splurge after this year’s £150m spend, with Real Madrid being viewed as the model for a strategy to recruit an elite player for every position in Louis van Gaal’s squad.
(14) But it has also meant a splurge of investment in European clubs, from Atlético Madrid to Manchester City, and even a controversial involvement in the Portuguese second division (the Chinese sponsor of the league had asked that each of the top 10 sides have a Chinese player in their squad – the idea was later abandoned).
(15) Money from the west funded an infrastructure splurge that brought new autobahns, rail links, a trade show centre and the development of Leipzig-Halle airport.
(16) The ruling led to a splurge of secret outside funding in the 2010 midterm elections in which about $300m was spent, a threefold increase on 2006.
(17) Some of my northern pals splurge on personalised number plates.
(18) They would not splurge money on vanity projects, on “free” schools, sports stadiums, high-speed railways, and flashy science and arts centres.
(19) The truth is that sharp cuts in global emissions are urgently required and one-quarter of Britain’s carbon budget will need to be splurged on aviation by 2050, according to the Committee on Climate Change.
(20) Bank of England credit figures appear to show that middle income families are paying down their debts at a slower pace to release funds for consumption rather than a splurge of spending based on higher consumer credit.
Squander
Definition:
(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.
(v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
(v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
(v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.
(n.) The act of squandering; waste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obviously that inning, and game four in general, was frustrating for the Oakland A's, as they squandered several opportunities to knock out the Tigers.
(2) If Heathrow were shrunk or closed, he says, the investment that has gone into the airport would be squandered.
(3) His would undoubtedly be squandered on Paul Smith outfits and holidays in Mykonos.
(4) The UK's weather seems set on squandering one of its last chances to make amends for the largely dismal summer by threatening wind and rain for the event-packed bank holiday weekend.
(5) Previous titles in the series track the unfolding of the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster: Syrian Catastrophe, War on Development, Squandering Humanity, and Alienation and Violence.
(6) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
(7) Part of me feels I squandered the chances she gave me.
(8) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
(9) Most consistent home wins record although has been known to squander leads late in games.
(10) Weaver said the New York tour, which he called a “cousin” of the Iowa road trip, was executed “brilliantly” by Clinton’s then-campaign team, which launched a successful bid for senate before her confidants squandered an early advantage in chasing the White House seven years later.
(11) It's as mad and dysfunctional as the idea that education is wasted on mothers, because they will squander it on overseeing the education of their children.
(12) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
(13) Sterling squandered a glorious chance to restore Liverpool's lead in a second half where they remained dangerous on the break, but Everton maintained overall control.
(14) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(15) Millions of British will pay a higher price – the needless squandering of their lives.
(16) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.
(17) If asset managers and pension funds continue to ignore the threat, they face being accused of negligence - squandering billions of other people’s money on potentially disastrous investment decisions, because they were not taking the risk of climate change and what the cost of dealing with it could do to financial markets seriously enough.” Bruce Davis from Abundance Generation said: “We believe that renewable energy is an important new asset for investors to get returns which are importantly uncorrelated with the traditional financial system.
(18) Throughout this tournament, the striker with a bowl-cut straight out of Hull circa 1986 has lead the line superbly, made perceptive runs, found excellent scoring positions ... and squandered more opportunities than a boy who's been expelled from Eton, Harrow and every other fee-paying school in the land.
(19) Yet every day of waiting is a day wasted, with potential going untapped and opportunities squandered.
(20) He said England’s destiny had been in their control with opportunities squandered.