How to Use wasteful in a Sentence

wasteful

adjective

• 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
• Not only that, but one of the tenets of my endeavor is to be less wasteful.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Just conceding the 25-yard line and removing the chance of a turnover seems wasteful.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2020
• If these things sound mostly ridiculous and wasteful, well, many of them are.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
• 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
• And then there is the part where people call it silly, wasteful, hype-driven and out of place in the halls of any university.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Studies have shown that when a local community loses a legitimate news source, there's a huge spike in wasteful government.
  — Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
• This is not only wasteful but also undermines the credibility of luxury fashion, making brands appear out of touch with consumers and environment.
  — Stéphane Jg Girod, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025