Use
How words are described
| human | human use | human waste |
| good | good use | good waste |
| real | real use | real waste |
| little | little use | little waste |
| Other adjectives: egregious, deliberate, military. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The ammunition types designed for use against them (armor-piercing and electric) are so rare and expensive that it's basically a waste to use them all up on them.
- When a truck carrying nuclear waste crashes in front of the Griffin household, each family member is imbued with a different superpower, which they use to cause mayhem.
Source: Toxic Waste Can Do Anything - Bots in Time Splitters 2 would never use their fists unless you turned weapons off entirely, they would rather waste time hunting for a harmless fire extinguisher to shoot you with instead.
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Waste and Use. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/use/waste
Use & Waste. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/use/waste>.
Waste or Use. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/use/waste.
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