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Example sentences for: wasteful

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As most researchers focus on one or two tissues only, this global approach to array production is somewhat wasteful.
"When I see … wasteful pork-barrel spending [while] we have 12,000 enlisted families--brave men and women--on food stamps, yeah, I get angry."
By standardizing practice, the reformers argued, wasteful care would be curtailed without sacrificing--perhaps even while improving--quality.
Two things, however, that you missed in "Paste Test": Colgate Total makes your tongue numb (I've tested this with a friend), and Mentadent/pump pastes in general are hugely wasteful.
The law encourages wasteful spending and intrusive investigations: "Since 1990, eight independent counsels have spent a total of more than $80 million."