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.
• This is not just an injustice but a sign of economic inefficiency.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• But that expansion can also lead to inefficiencies, Jones said.
  — al, 5 Sep. 2019
• Somehow, some way, despite all their woes and inefficiencies, the Giants are the best in baseball in games decided by one run.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Lastly, having such a multiplicity of tax heads is a recipe for inefficiency.
  — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 23 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Boston Public Schools faced a crisis in busing inefficiency and expense.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2019
• Proponents of the bill cited the expense, inefficiency and immorality of death sentences.
  — oregonlive.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Before reserves entered late in the fourth quarter, the running inefficiencies were evident in almost every scenario.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2019
• Besides, a lot of the Beavers’ inefficiency was due to things that the Hoyas were doing to them.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• 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 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 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 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
• 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
• FedEx views the change as a way to address the inefficiencies that arise when Express and Ground trucks appear in the same neighborhoods bringing packages to homes.
  — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
• This rampant inefficiency at the plate led to a quiet, somber postgame clubhouse.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has cast a spotlight on deep inefficiencies within Britain’s defense sectors, provoking calls for reform.
  — Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
• If faced with a budget deficit, my priority would be to look for inefficiencies in the city’s spending and cut wasteful programs that aren’t benefiting the community.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024