Sentence examples for is needlessly high from inspiring English sources

The majority of drives in the U.S. today are solo trips, meaning that vehicle space is significantly underutilized and fuel usage is needlessly high.

IN a rhetorical turn that conjured Clint Eastwood, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, suggested last week that the estimated cost of a war in Iraq -- tens of billions of dollars by most counts -- might be needlessly high.

"We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books".

On Sunday afternoon, Amazon reversed course and announced on its Web site, "We will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books".

The Macmillan dispute in 2010 ended in Amazon backing down, with the retailer announcing: "We will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for ebooks".

Much of the conversation around the "crisis in higher education" is needlessly complicated by nostalgia for a premodern university.

With today's high fuel costs, sending empty ships across the world for dismantling is needlessly expensive, especially if it can be done closer to home.

This is needlessly complicated.

The lighting is needlessly dim.

The plot is needlessly elaborate.

This is needlessly vague and unrigorous.