How to Use wasteful in a Sentence

wasteful

adjective
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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
  • Idling my truck just to take a shower seemed wasteful and loud.
    — Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 22 May 2021
  • 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
  • A couple of wedges of cheese, some crackers, and a handful of grapes in a ton of wasteful packaging for $18?
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Atletico Madrid had plenty of chances, in particular in the first half, but was wasteful when in front of goal.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Aside from being shown how to not be wasteful, no one ever talked to us about how to save, invest, or budget.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
  • The team’s only wasteful spending was on a player no longer welcome on the premises.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • That’s far cheaper (and less wasteful) than buying a new smartphone.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The other main criticism of OTF is that its budget is wasteful.
    — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • With toilet paper out of stock, bidets are booming, which is good news for our behinds and less wasteful.
    — Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • But don't think of a city's constellation of 5G base stations as wasteful.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The state must cut wasteful government spending and reduce the size of its bloated bureaucracy.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024

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