Use "wasteful" in a sentence
wasteful example sentences
wasteful
1. Most people when they start out, do not have the luxury of being wasteful
2. There was a time, however, when our government was less prolific and wasteful, the demands placed upon it less urgent; a time when most individuals looked to themselves and their families first, rather than the government for assistance
3. It was an ―accident‖ waiting to happen! Now President Bush is allowing himself to be (further) manipulated by his political opponents into revitalizing the area through spending initiatives and designs modeled on the wasteful, economically improvident urban programs of the sixties instead of providing relief and (financial) assistance on a needs basis
4. He did not voice his concern though; he knew it was not necessary and only wasteful
5. Traditionally Thais never leave rice on the plate as it is considered wasteful and rice has an almost mystical significance in addition to its humdrum 'daily bread' function
6. A good effective common sense tells us waving our hand around is wasteful energy and causes others to stare at us
7. “Sometimes creativity seems wasteful, illogical
8. required is wasteful and the pleasure derived from it is momentary
9. Presidential library in Simi Valley, something the late president, who built his political career on fighting wasteful spending, would have opposed
10. I do admit that the gas attack in Sming and the spell-craft attack in rural Finitra were wasteful and ill-advised, and those responsible will be beaten several times
11. “So now they’re all chasing us, even though it’s a totally wasteful misuse of his resources
12. inappropriately is potentially harmful to the patient and wasteful of resources
13. great teaching centers are practicing a wasteful and, in many cases, a non-
14. New faces, especially a certain detective, well it was a large cottage, and it seemed so wasteful to have it all to herself
15. Even with their wasteful ways, the crew could easily live a month on this in fair comfort,” Nem said, trying to seem twitchy
16. Ancient Thebes was too grandiose, too wasteful, too ridiculously pretentious after the serene simplicity of Kanu’s village
17. I’m not saying this is bad, but there’s a point where it becomes wasteful and ineffective
18. God! Humans are so wasteful
19. The more they have the more they want in a never ending race to be more spendthrift, more banal, more wasteful, more artificial and less useful than any other woman in history
20. She has a reason: simple wasteful greed
21. I do not mean to imply that children should be reared to be wasteful and
22. “That doesn’t mean that I should be wasteful
23. This seemed wasteful to Judas, and when his public protest was so sweepingly disallowed by Jesus right there in the hearing of all, it was too much
24. In this way may you transform your temptations into the highest types of uplifting mortal ministry while you almost wholly avoid these wasteful and weakening conflicts between the animal and spiritual natures
25. He said it would be wasteful
26. That seems wasteful and will litter the navigable areas around the planet with debris that could be hazards for decades
27. They saw the folly in acquisition of goods as a measure of the man and looked to more practical solutions to transportation, choosing trains and community transport to the wasteful individual choices
28. Shrimp trawling is the most wasteful of all fishing activities
29. “These lessons required considerable evolutionary history, or tremendous natural ability to gather energy and store it without wasteful movements or actions
30. I am not a student of war, as I find it repulsive, disgusting, demeaning, infantile, wasteful, degrading and horrible
31. Further resistance would be both futile and wasteful, thus I, as your Emperor, order you to accept defeat and to refrain from further fighting
32. It seems that the first American atomic bombs made in the original history were very wasteful of fissile material
33. Paying for a “tradition” is wasteful spending
34. Some had criticized what was for them wasteful spending but, in truth, Ingrid easily had the financial means to pay for all this
35. (This assumes that they’ve seen and understand this information on health care administration and would rather see wasteful spending in industry (over $150B /yr) than the same moneys used for the provision of care to the people
36. I asked the question earlier whether carrier task groups are vulnerable to low flying low observable missiles, whether these missiles exist in foreign stocks and if so on both accounts, why do we keep carrier task groups in service in the first place? In our new economic system we don’t want any wasteful spending (costly items with small costs to defeat)
37. That was wasteful of ammunition but Ingrid knew too well that her female pilots were new to combat and still had a lot to learn about air gunnery
38. That can be wasteful, but even so it will give you the feedback and
39. The jet fighters were mainly used to attack four-engined Allied bombers - a tactic that many German fliers considered wasteful
40. With nothing more than common sense America can go from having the most expensive and wasteful
41. And the best kept secret in education is that reliance on the current wasteful and ineffective educational system is causing extensive damage to the American economy
42. All the while most of these universities are sucking away tax money to fund the egregious waste of collegians in bowling class and other wasteful efforts
43. As long as cars run on gas, rising gas prices will combat wasteful driving habits
44. ‘’So, not content to leave you alone to oppose the Vikings that were approaching Toulouse, King Charles is now asking for warriors from Toulouse, to continue a wasteful internecine conflict with other Carolingian nobles inside his kingdom
45. ‘’There is still the matter of all those useless and wasteful internecine wars between King Charles, his brothers, nephews and other nobles inside his kingdom
46. Lastly, carpet bombing from high altitude may be good at churning up plowed fields or blow to bits large urban surfaces, but in terms of hitting pinpoint targets or even relatively large individual buildings, it is both extremely inaccurate and very wasteful in bombs
47. soaking up what he would consider wasteful energy
48. Yours Honor! After all why are we spending millions of dollars on such absurd and wasteful exercise…?
49. mistakes but this is an incredibly wasteful and risky strategy
50. How large does the communal grain storage and breeding herd have to be so as to be truly helpful but not so large as to be wasteful? All of these things and many more cannot be decided today
