It seemed to him that all he had suffered had been sheer waste.

With her looks, anything else would be a sheer waste.

Expenditure without return, the sheer waste of energy, is forbidden.

And grabbing them, everybody knows, is sheer waste of time.

So they consider going on hunting a sheer waste of time.

The three words "as a whole" are a sheer waste of text.

To ignore such an opportunity would have been sheer waste.

I'm bothered a little by the sheer waste of it, but I've made my peace with that about this town.

Even if this were all, it would be sheer waste to sleep.

It is a sheer waste of time to expand upon proposals for own resources and European taxes.