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Example sentences for "wastefully"

Lexicographically close words:
wastage; waste; wastebasket; wasted; wasteful; wastefulness; wastel; wasteland; wasten; wastepaper
  1. All sorts of wastefully laborious methods of labour will be superseded, in the same way as the steam hammer has superseded the sledge hammer.

  2. He finds first as an element of economy careful firing, so as to avoid “holes” or thin places in a fire, through which air wastefully pours, chilling the furnace.

  3. When they met, he dismounted, and, placing her astride on the saddle, continued his way with the expression of a man whose cup of happiness is wastefully running over.

  4. Was one half unduly and wastefully excited?

  5. The annual accretions are small for an enormous amount of human effort is wastefully directed.

  6. Here is where the money is spent, and most wastefully misspent as we shall see later.

  7. This means two hundred and forty dollars a day, or sixteen hundred and eighty dollars a week, that the block of families is paying to have its wastefully home-purchased food more wastefully home-cooked.

  8. He, and especially she, must wear the dainty garments on which our misguided mother love so wastefully lavishes itself; and must then be restricted in all natural exercise lest they be torn or soiled.

  9. A prodigal land policy put a premium upon a wastefully rapid extension of the farming area.

  10. Yet there is grave reason to believe that the rate of growth in the nineteenth century was wastefully rapid and that a slower and sounder growth might have been better.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wastefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.