How to Use wasteful in a Sentence

wasteful

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• We must eliminate wasteful expenditures.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Resale has taken off among those looking to save the planet and spend less on gifts during what can be the most wasteful time of the year — the December holidays.
  — Leanne Italie, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2021
• The packaging was a mess, with those wasteful plastic jewel boxes.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2022
• But two of the ships are just seven years old and part of the troubled Littoral Combat ship class that has been sharply criticized by watchdogs for wasteful spending.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• Thus, any used and lost on an essentially symbolic raid may be seen as wasteful.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
• Enter shampoo bars, a tidy, less wasteful alternative and a great gift.
  — Nancy Einhart, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2023
• Democrats don’t share the view of Mr. McCarthy and his colleagues of what constitutes wasteful federal spending.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024