Sentence examples for a bad use of from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a bad use of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an inappropriate or ineffective application of something, such as a resource, tool, or concept.
Example: "Using the budget for unnecessary expenses is a bad use of our financial resources."
Alternatives: "an improper use of" or "a poor application of".

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That was not a bad use of funds after Gordon Hayward bolted for the Utah Jazz.

If ever there was a bad use of the rhyming dictionary, this is it.

It is not a bad use of the city's cable station.

Paying servicers, these conflicted agents, $1,000 per mortgage to reduce interest payments, as the Obama plan provides, is a bad use of scarce federal dollars.

You never know, the state's investment might even turn a profit.Bailing out Detroit would be a bad use of public money.

Shameful Buyback Investors who think buying back stock is a bad use of capital last week were handed a poor new benchmark.

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"It's a really bad use of people's time and it creates a sense of resentment toward the company, when really, training should be empowering the staff".

However, in this way the threads access very sparse memory locations, thus causing a very bad use of the L1 cache, and this fact globally worsens the execution time, despite the speedup of the allocation/deallocation phases.

This is an enormously bad use of public money.

Texans also have a bad habit of using this, their kids and family as an excuse to support this bill and at the end of the day, they sound so educated.

It's easy to make a bad habit of using these words and even easier to have your intentions be misunderstood.

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