How to Use wasteful in a Sentence

wasteful

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  • We must eliminate wasteful expenditures.
  • The amount of plastic used here for the two alignment tools feels a bit wasteful.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The most festive time of the year is also the most wasteful, experts say.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The Luxe+ is $200 and employs single-use blades, which is wasteful.
    — Haley Sprankle, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Clean With Me videos are fun to watch, but most of the methods shown are wasteful at best and hazardous at worst.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2022
  • Who has the guts to stand up to wasteful government spending?
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The Ravens’ best hope for an upset (and a playoff pulse) is getting the wasteful version of Matthew Stafford.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • To us, this revealed how entrenched the belief that leisure is wasteful can be.
    — Selin Malkoc, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The unit cost of ivermectin pills is low — about $1 to $1.50 per pill — but the volume of wasteful prescriptions adds up.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Ultimately, a wedding day should be the best day of your life, but not the most wasteful.
    — Lizzie Hyman, Peoplemag, 3 Dec. 2022
  • So the wasteful misuse of it can have a dire impact on its supply for NAC members.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Well, here’s something that should help the pushback against this alarming, wasteful trend.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
  • And more than a dozen have banned plastic bags — the poster children of wasteful, single-use plastics.
    — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Food waste is a major driver of greenhouse gas emissions, and the holidays are one of the most wasteful times of the year.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The process is wasteful: Cobalt generates about 860 pounds of waste rock for each pound of refined cobalt powder.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Tolkien talks about him wanting to rid Middle-earth of wasteful friction.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Otter founder Sam Liang says the new feature will help cut down on the time employees spend in wasteful meetings.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This also leads many to believe that taking time to one's self is wasteful or selfish.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Parents, 29 May 2024
  • In the event of a deficit, the first step must be to eliminate wasteful spending and functions that are not resident facing.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Hopefully 2023 will bring new methods to reduce waste in a very wasteful field.
    — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 14 Dec. 2022
  • So is this a distasteful, not to mention wasteful, stunt, or a lucrative art project cum pot of gold?
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The effort was derided at the time for wasteful spending and causing long lines at airports.
    — NBC News, 3 May 2022
  • And then there’s the packaging — plastic trays and wrappers — which some critics say is wasteful.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Proponents say the ban takes aim at wasteful contests, not all hunting.
    — Michael Hill, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • Cai Cramer is a shopping writer who loves to stay current on fashion trends but hates wasteful fast fashion.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
  • The program is wasteful and not well aligned to the realities of today’s airline system.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • That would be wasteful and would give the military way too much economic power.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Hoda Kotb isn't going to be wasteful with last year's holiday cards.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2023
  • As The Verge pointed out, Apple, in a move that feels painfully wasteful in more ways than one, will sell users seven sets of function row keycaps for that price.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In a spacecraft or on a space station, where every drop of potentially drinkable water is sacred, this could be viewed as wasteful.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 12 July 2024

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