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Example sentences for "wasteful"

Lexicographically close words:
wast; wastage; waste; wastebasket; wasted; wastefully; wastefulness; wastel; wasteland; wasten
  1. Bevel-gears are wasteful of power when worked under heavy loads.

  2. This is not only very wasteful of expensive iron but the wheels soon wabble to such an extent that they no longer guide the plow, in which case the draft may be increased enormously.

  3. In wasteful bounty showered, they smile unseen, Unseen by man--but what if purer sprights By moonlight o'er their dewy bosoms lean To adore the Father of all gentle lights?

  4. O Holy mountain of my God, How do thy towers in ruin lie, How art thou riven and strewn abroad, Under the rude and wasteful sky!

  5. But, like all compulsory legislation, that of Nature is harsh and wasteful in its operation.

  6. A few of the emigrant farmers laughed at the clumsy, wasteful French methods and tried their own, which were laughed at in turn, but there was little disputing.

  7. It was wasteful and inconsistent with regular accountability.

  8. Here I counsel every man who must have a corner to himself to fix his study in the attic, for the only way to avoid noise without wasteful complication is to be above it.

  9. The official histories of the deadly struggles of armies show that they are not so wasteful of life as is generally supposed.

  10. I tell you this is the wasteful extravagance of the buccaneer, not the generosity of a true gentleman.

  11. Another month or two of this wasteful extravagance, and Cashel will be deeply, seriously embarrassed.

  12. There was no doubt that the seal herd of the Pacific was being rapidly destroyed by careless and wasteful hunters from most of the countries bordering on that ocean.

  13. It was she who had set the example of this wasteful luxury in dress; she who had bewitched all the women, so that they had gone mad for a feather or a flower.

  14. He has received a statement of every annuity paid by your majesty's orders, and has declared his intention of cleaning out the Augean stables of this wasteful beneficence.

  15. But how wasteful is the momentary fury--wasteful of high passion and distinguished capacity, and how mystifying to the lay intelligence!

  16. To avoid imprudence, it is necessary to discount that aspect which the interest wears within the period of its immediate fulfilment, and thus avoid the necessity of repeating the hard and wasteful lesson of experience.

  17. When its benefit involves a wasteful sacrifice of interests and may be purchased more thriftily, the pressure of interest inevitably in the long run brings about the change.

  18. Where the machinery of representation becomes wasteful and clumsy, it ceases to serve the community.

  19. This rude economy would be continued for generations, and wasteful as it is, is still largely pursued in Northern Sweden, Swedish Lapland, and sometimes even in France and the United States.

  20. Legislation there, as elsewhere, proved ineffectual to protect them, and many authors of the sixteenth century express fears of serious evils from the wasteful economy of the people in this respect.

  21. This is the cheapest method of management, and therefore the best wherever the price of labor and of capital bears a high proportion to that of land and of timber; but it is essentially a wasteful economy.

  22. They would thus put an end to this motion, so wasteful of time.

  23. Mr. GILES described the ridiculous and wasteful effects to be looked for from such a way of coining money.

  24. Finally he is charged with 'wasteful and lavish expense' in repairing the ironwork of the Anne Royal at a cost of 800l.

  25. By such practical methods Edison found that the thin, laminated cores of sheet iron gave the least heat, and had the least amount of wasteful eddy currents.

  26. Nobody ever had a bigger scrap-heap than Edison; but who dare proclaim the process intrinsically wasteful if the losses occur in the initial stages, and the economies in all the later ones?

  27. Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate.

  28. These battles has led to a vast, and as it proved, wasteful expenditure of ammunition.

  29. This was even more determined and more wasteful of life than the second.

  30. So young, so wasteful of life and all that life had to give, and now parted from it, taken from it at a blow!

  31. As heretofore carried on, this brushing is a most rudimentary and wasteful operation.

  32. Again, was it possible to effect the perfect calcination of the interior of the lumps alluded to without bestowing upon the outer portions a greater heat than was necessary for the purpose, causing a wasteful expenditure of both time and fuel?

  33. After the cocoons are brushed they are, in the ordinary process, cleaned by hand, which is another tedious and wasteful operation performed by the reeler, and concerning which we shall have more to say further on.

  34. Any stick is good enough to beat slavery with, so it is usually stated that slavery was responsible for the wasteful methods of cultivation that prevailed in the South before the war.

  35. Illustration: A forest in the far west totally destroyed by fire and wasteful lumbering.

  36. This is primarily due to wrong and wasteful lumbering.

  37. This is the key to the regeneration of social existence, as it is the key to that unity of individual life which makes all our energies converge freely and without wasteful friction towards a common end.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wasteful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baneful; bootless; calamitous; cataclysmic; catastrophic; consuming; consumptive; deadly; desolating; destructive; devastating; disastrous; extravagant; fatal; fateful; improvident; incontinent; intemperate; internecine; lavish; nihilistic; prodigal; profligate; profuse; ruinous; spendthrift; subversive; suicidal; wasteful; wasting; withering