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Example sentences for: wasteful

How can you use “wasteful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The law encourages wasteful spending and intrusive investigations: "Since 1990, eight independent counsels have spent a total of more than $80 million."
If the fixture was designed to hold ten shirts of a particular color and size, for instance, it is both wasteful of space and visually unappealing to put only three shirts out—even if an economic analysis recommends the lower quantity.
This seems all the more wasteful, considering that the only useful information being conveyed in our example is a single vowel sound.
Those events, too, were derided in advance as wasteful and stupid.
Indeed it is an amusing, albeit utterly wasteful pastime to pursue the quest for Red Pants examples.