How to Use inefficiency in a Sentence

inefficiency

noun

• She claims that money can be saved by reducing inefficiencies.
• The candidate blamed her opponent for the local government's inefficiency.
• For one, the inefficiency that plagued him last year is back in full force this year.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Besides, a lot of the Beavers’ inefficiency was due to things that the Hoyas were doing to them.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• And the Pats deal down in the draft, manage the cap with balance across the roster, and strike on inefficiencies.
  — Albert Breer, The MMQB, 27 June 2017
• Israel has said the lack of aid is due to U.N. inefficiency.
  — Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
• The research about team inefficiency has been clear for more than a decade.
  — Mattias Bergstrom, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The game felt out of reach there due to Atlanta’s inefficiencies.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
• That leads to broader inefficiency: as many as 25% of all trucks on the road at any moment are empty, both in the U.S. and Europe.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Williams was fighting to keep the Sun in the game after a first half where they were plagued with inefficiency and poor rebounding.
  — Kelli Stacy, courant.com, 13 June 2018
• That is, companies learned that the cost of empty shelves was higher than the cost of some inefficiency.
  — Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
• The narrower the time frame, the larger the market inefficiencies and the greater the chance that an algorithm’s choice of trade will succeed.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• But if inefficiencies can’t be ironed out, the provider, not the insurance company, is on the hook for the overrun.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2019
• But the inefficiency and constrictions of the offense are grating for the GOAT.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• The Ravens buried themselves with turnovers, special-teams miscues and red-zone inefficiency in a 13-3 road loss to the Cleveland Browns.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2022
• The Pirates set sail in 2017 with a leaky defense that was once again one of the worst in the country while the offense suffered through a rash of injuries and inefficiency.
  — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps the offensive line was the root of the inefficiency.
  — Joe Mussatto, ajc, 3 Sep. 2017
• The turnovers were gone, but the inefficiency was still there as the Bengals played catch-up for essentially the entirety of their 20-17 loss to the Cowboys.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
• CEFs are the only corner of the market with this sweet inefficiency.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Despite inefficiency on the boards, UAB is as tenacious as any team in the country on the defensive end.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 17 Nov. 2021
• After a month of red-zone inefficiency, Prescott found a wide-open Elliott cutting right for a 5-yard touchdown around the right side.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
• The second one is the inefficiency of the capture process itself, although there are ways this could be better.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
• There were turnovers, inefficiency in the paint and a halftime lead that slowly slipped away, leading to a back-and-forth final few minutes.
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2025
• And the reasons ran the gamut, from Ryan’s inefficiency to Jones’ lack of scoring to inconsistency with the running game near the goal line.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
• There are some ways that a smart company might seek to wring real inefficiencies out of health care.
  — Margot Sanger-Katz and Reed Abelson, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• Each of the Big Three cloud providers has ironed out inefficiencies in the hardware and software running in their data centers.
  — Wired, 10 Dec. 2019
• But one sequence late in the first half demonstrated the team’s inefficiency.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The letter from the state officials implored the service to fix its inefficiencies to help have a smooth election process.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• In 1935, the court unanimously upheld Congress' requirement that presidents can fire members of independent boards or commissions only for cause, such as inefficiency, malfeasance or neglect of duty.
  — Andrea Hsu, NPR, 21 Mar. 2025
• From its inception to the present day, the mortality data system has been plagued by inconsistencies, inefficiencies and tensions between medical professionals, state governments and the federal government.
  — Dylan Thomas Doyle, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025