How to Use efficiency in a Sentence

efficiency

noun
  • Because of her efficiency, we got all the work done in a few hours.
  • The company is trying to lower costs and improve efficiencies.
  • The factory was operating at peak efficiency.
  • A furnace with 80 percent fuel efficiency wastes 20 percent of its fuel.
  • Chevrolet engineers did not tune the E-Ray for efficiency.
    Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Chryslers have been known as honest cars that offer a good blend of value, efficiency, and reasonable performance.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Ultimately, both are great options that will offer energy efficiency to your home cooling system this summer.
    Micki Wagner, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The next big items are interest on existing debt — not a great use of funds, but also not an efficiency question — and the military, where Trump wants to spend more rather than less.
    Matthew Yglesias, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The proceeds have been invested in improving production efficiency at the Mega Ranch.
    Richard Collings, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Last week, Trump proposed a government efficiency commission headed by Musk.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The plants, in turn, boost the efficiency of the panels.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The red zone efficiency was among the best in the country.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Willem Dafoe plays that part with the efficiency of a K-Car.
    Jon Robin Baitz, Variety, 22 Dec. 2021
  • And the efficiency of the charging will likely be a part of it, too.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The swing-and-miss was there when Woodruff needed it, but so was the efficiency.
    Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Ohio State’s red-zone efficiency is the best in the nation.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 22 Oct. 2022
  • His efficiency, quick reads and smart throws are off the charts.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • It’s that sort of efficiency that makes the Mustangs hard to beat.
    Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • These two teams rank in the top three of the league in offensive efficiency, so the over is worth a look.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Still, her efficiency means that the album has no weak points to speak of.
    Mark Richardson, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The brilliance of the chin stroke is in the efficiency of its demployment.
    Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Big tech has made a fetish of efficiency, of data, of the wisdom of the market.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 6 July 2018
  • My socks are all the same, in the interest of efficiency.
    Popular Science, 20 June 2020
  • The Suns rank fourth in the league in offensive efficiency and tempo, so the over is worth a look.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But for all the efficiency that built the lead, the response was equally sloppy.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Over time, with stealth and damning efficiency, this kind of toxic stress can take a toll on the body and mind.
    Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 22 June 2019
  • That efficiency is something the Lakers hope to see more of from him.
    Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The traffic flowed, but not with the efficiency of Gillette’s toilets or beer taps.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Other researchers are trying to wring efficiencies at the back end of the process.
    Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
  • But the efficiency of making the efficient throws is something that comes with the snaps, reps.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2021

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