be wasteful
Example Sentences
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They can be brilliant and they can be brutal, they can be lethal and they can be wasteful.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
Carter wrote that the VA has in effect sold the land off, by allowing lease holders to construct concrete facilities on it and then arguing that tearing those facilities down would be wasteful.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024
You don’t want to be wasteful with that expensive gas you’re buying.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2023
Image: iFixit Whole unit replacements can be wasteful on the supply-chain front, though, and data transfers to a new device are always cumbersome — especially for those not paying for Apple’s iCloud backup subscription.
From The Verge • Apr. 6, 2022
She could not throw it away; that would be wasteful.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
