Sentence examples for profligate use from inspiring English sources

A third problem is the country's profligate use of energy.

Maybe turn your attention to the profligate use of talcum powder in the changing area, instead.

Such profligate use of resources is the antithesis of the environmental ideal.

At the same time they put a heavy burden on public spending, and they encourage the profligate use of power.

Profligate use of antibiotics has provided the evolutionary driver for bacteria to develop resistance to the drugs.

In other words, the UK is piling further debt onto poor countries, so that they can pay for the damage wrought by our own profligate use of CO2.

Most of today's profligate water use occurs in the richer nations – the average American uses around 575 litres of water per day, while Europeans somehow manage on 250 litres per day.

Nigeria, he argues, offers a terrifying vision of the consequences of tolerating gross inequality, profligate energy use and environmental abuse.

In his autobiography, "Rhythm and the Blues" (Knopf, 1993), written with David Ritz, Mr. Wexler wrote candidly and self-critically about a personal life that he acknowledged had been intemperate, replete with adulterous liaisons and profligate drug use.

While the birch species are fast-growing trees with profligate water use, rapid loss of hydraulic conductivity for fast growth rates means that they succumb to drought rapidly (Mao et al. 2004; Ambebe and Dang 2010).

Regulators on Wednesday singled out Malibu as one example of a city returning to profligate water use.