Sentence examples for profligate amount from inspiring English sources

Still, even with the subtraction I'm sure it was a profligate amount in her eyes.

Myocardial metabolism seems to be an equally viable target, as the heart consumes such a profligate amount of pyruvate that SNR ratios for imaging experiments can be quite large.

The Blower was fast, but it consumed profligate amounts of fuel and was not particularly reliable.

That was too good a bargain to pass up, he said, but in general Mr. Zell is especially pessimistic about the office sector, saying that the United States is "profligate" in the amount of space it allocates per office worker — 250 square feet, on average, compared with 80 square feet in Hong Kong.

Above all Germany must be reassured that greater risk-sharing will not amount to handing its credit card to profligate governments.

For Cablevision customers, having to pay ever-steeper amounts of money to this imperialistic and grossly profligate corporation is upsetting enough.

So... you can't say (Sanders' proposal) represents some kind of profligate, free-spending idea that would cost us all terrible amounts of money".

So... you can't say (Sanders' proposal) represents some kind of profligate, free-spending idea that would cost us all terrible amounts of money". Social Security would never have been created if Democrats had taken this position in the 1930s, since it is funded by payroll taxes.

Some feel that the amount of memory on today's computers can make programmers lazy and profligate.

Addicted to colossal amounts of leverage, the onetime arbiter of scarce capital had become the most profligate borrower.

Only when it counts sexually are men profligate and women helpful.That result was confirmed by the second experiment which, instead of looking at the amount of spending and volunteering, looked at how conspicuous it was.