How to Use inefficient in a Sentence

inefficient

adjective

• The delivery system was very inefficient.
• This training is very inefficient compared to how people learn.
  — Kate Saenko, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
• But the rollout of the vaccines has been criticized as slow and inefficient.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2021
• He's been great on the glass with eight rebounds - six offensive - but he's been pretty inefficient.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2020
• Two of the league's most inefficient offenses looked the part during a sluggish first quarter.
  — Brian Hall, Star Tribune, 20 Jan. 2021
• There are even more inefficient television markets being blitzed with ads.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Many executives have panned these ideas in the past, calling them too expensive and inefficient.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• Its many unlined canals and deteriorating gates make for a system that’s inefficient and prone to leaks.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
• But a rowboat is unstable in the floods of spring (a rapidly changing economy) and inefficient in the low waters of fall.
  — Isaac Cheifetz, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
• Each has been shown, in some cases by more than a century of scientific inquiry, to be distracting, inefficient, and stress-inducing.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• Doing this manually is not only inefficient but also impractical at scale.
  — Patrick Reynolds, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• One problem for underfed children is disruption of the gut microbiome, which leads to an immature, inefficient digestive system that stunts growth.
  — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 31 Dec. 2020
• The process was too inefficient a use of the country’s gas supply.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• Gay hit some big shots for the Spurs but was inefficient in his shooting.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 May 2021
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2022
• This is clearly an inefficient way to solve the problem.
  — Kathy Roth-Douquet, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• On top of that, passive learning tends to be slow and inefficient.
  — Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The rookie, however, was inefficient from the field (4 of 12) to total just 9 points.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
• Adebayo’s season-long inefficient shooting continued, finishing the loss with just four points on 0-of-6 shooting from the field in 26 minutes.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
• The rapid growth in the market for electric vehicles has slowed as customers resist higher prices and balk at an inefficient public charging system.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
• Streamline processes: Identify inefficient workflows and find ways to improve them.
  — Marco Buscaglia, Boston Herald, 16 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025