How to Use inefficient in a Sentence

inefficient

adjective

• The delivery system was very inefficient.
• 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
• But the rollout of the vaccines has been criticized as slow and inefficient.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2021
• The rookie, however, was inefficient from the field (4 of 12) to total just 9 points.
  — Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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 for every good pass that sets up a Liddell three, there’s an inefficient step-back jumper that follows.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2021
• From the right, the World Bank was seen as an inefficient source of handouts to poorly performing countries.
  — Howard Schneider, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2020
• 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
• And this is why tariffs are both costly and inefficient.
  — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2024
• Many of these cuts were necessary to rein in a bloated, inefficient and spendthrift state.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Concerns that their process is inefficient have been a constant theme since the group first began mapping.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2021
• One way to ensure that the error spheres don’t overlap is to position them far apart, but this would be inefficient.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• Bub Carrington continues to run the show in Washington but has been inefficient.
  — Sam Vecenie, The Athletic, 14 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

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2025