挥霍 (huīhuò) means Spend extravagantly (squander). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
时间也不能随意 挥霍 。
Shíjiān yě bù néng suíyì huīhuò.
Time too must not be squandered at will.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 挥霍
他 挥霍 掉了父母留下的全部积蓄。
Tā huīhuò diào le fùmǔ liúxià de quánbù jīxù.
He squandered all the savings his parents left him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 挥霍
他大肆 挥霍 ，很快就把钱花光了。
Tā dàsì huīhuò, hěn kuài jiù bǎ qián huā guāng le.
He squandered money recklessly and soon had none left.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 大肆
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How is 挥霍 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 挥霍 (huīhuò, "Spend extravagantly (squander)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 挥霍 an HSK word?
Yes — 挥霍 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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