How to Use inefficient in a Sentence

inefficient

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  • The delivery system was very inefficient.
  • That would put pressure on states to spend or lose the funding, which could lead to some bad, or at least inefficient, choices.
    — Raymond Scheppach, Quartz, 9 July 2021
  • Others are stuck using inefficient payment methods due to access or old habits.
    — Kevin O'Brien, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • War, famine, disease and inefficient use of medical resources will drive them downward.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
  • The current layout is a highly inefficient use of space, Campbell noted.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 29 June 2021
  • The building also has an inefficient layout and has small classrooms and narrow and congested hallways.
    — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2024
  • However, experts have proven time and again that airplane boarding is still pretty inefficient, despite the airlines' best efforts.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Critics say it’s an inefficient, crumbling structure with too little usable space to serve the state offices that have occupied it for 36 years.
    — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
  • The taxation of corporations is known to be inefficient due to the knock-on effects of the double taxation of capital.
    — WSJ, 15 July 2021
  • Opponents of such measures say diaper banks don’t ensure donations go only to those in need and that such programs are an inefficient use of public dollars.
    — Sharon Terlep, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • The program has helped many homeowners replace inefficient heating systems fueled by natural gas, heating oil, and propane.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2021
  • The dynamic mix of competing, often conflicting, forces appears inefficient at ground level, where projects and start-ups produce more failures than new products.
    — Standish Fleming, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The laudable goal of encouraging clean energy and energy efficiency doesn’t have to be pursued through such inefficient and costly means.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2021
  • For many chemical processes, cells are also relatively inefficient, partly because the cells need to consume energy to live.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • The process was too inefficient a use of the country’s gas supply.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The city used some inefficient and ugly chain link fencing at the trail head.
    — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • What the Democrats don't realize is that these immigrants want to come here to get away the inefficient rule of the CCP.
    — Jianli Yang, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
  • But inside the red zone, the Ravens aren’t getting a good push at the line of scrimmage, and that’s part of the reason this team is so inefficient.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec. 2022
  • But there aren’t as many guards who take a lot of inefficient shots, and big plodding centers no longer clog the floor.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That sort of inefficient process just doesn’t make sense.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The home’s old diesel furnace was loud and inefficient.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Auburn’s offense was inefficient in the program’s worst home loss in a decade.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 18 Sep. 2022
  • This is clearly an inefficient way to solve the problem.
    — Kathy Roth-Douquet, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Some saw Wikipedia, a nonprofit based in the U.S., as an inefficient use of the council’s resources.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Walker and UConn fans will trade an inefficient shooting night for the sport's top prize anytime.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
  • What’s worse than the inefficient shooting numbers is the overall tenor of a superstar scoring guard bound for the Hall of Fame.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 June 2024
  • But too many are inefficient, self-serving or even fake.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Alongside cost and the inefficient way they are extracted, there’s the issue of emissions.
    — Jess Shanahan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That is where luck and layout play a big role: Even a very inefficient house can reach net-zero if enough solar panels fit on top of it.
    — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2022
  • This model is truly the most inefficient policing model in the free world.
    — Art Acevedo, CNN, 2 June 2022

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