Sentence examples for seem wasteful from inspiring English sources

At a glance, this may seem wasteful, but this is not waste — this is what progress looks like!

Royal building programmes and pageantry came to seem wasteful extravagance.

While the middle class did not want to be seen eating leftovers, it also didn't want to seem wasteful.

Just in case it didn't seem wasteful enough, YouTube came through with a video of a shirtless child being patted down by a burly security guard.

It was such a strong piece of stalk, it did seem wasteful to toss it on the compost, so its bottom leaves were pulled off.

But, from a different perspective, it is football's complexity and secrecy that seem wasteful: all that intelligence and effort devoted to delicate, multivariable contingency plans that the vast majority of fans will never notice, let alone decipher.

The spending never seemed wasteful to him so much as the country's needs seemed endless.

Hoards of dollars that seemed wasteful before last autumn's panic no longer seem quite so excessive.

If you are green or broke, as many people are these days, this seems wasteful.

To some critics, introducing chemicals to a naturally sun-protective category like clothing seems wasteful.

Some policy analysts say a universal program seems wasteful, and advocate instead programs that target the neediest students.