Sentence examples for sort of wasteful from inspiring English sources

"There's something exciting about making work without ownership," says Allt, "a sort of wasteful luxury.

On the other hand, they don't look, smell, or handle like a book and they're probably not as convenient when researching or writing an article as you can't have several of them open at once (unless you happen to be wealthy enough to own several of them at once but that's sort of wasteful in comparison to books).

Littelfuse gained the space by drastically cutting back its need to store raw materials, unused scrap, unfinished goods and other sorts of wasteful material.

And leaving the budget surplus in government hands rather than returning it to the citizenry through tax cuts, they say, encourages all sorts of wasteful spending.

Businesses that push these sorts of wasteful ways of growing their business can have no credibility as sustainable businesses no matter how much "eco" and "organic" labels they add to their products and packaging.

It ends up feeling kind of wasteful.

To anyone with eyes to see, however, it's clear that this sort of thing is hugely wasteful — both of their money and our time.

I remember standing outside afterwards in the shadow of the Boston Public Library and its inscription"The Commonwealth Requires the Education of the People as the Safeguard of Order and Liberty -- and feeling like a particular sort of heathen, tipsy and wasteful, having neither enjoyed the drinks nor written anything cogent.

As for the ending of Mother Teresa's own life, I think she would have found something wasteful in any sort of mass tribute to mark her death.

Bathing in their too-bright, wasteful light became a sort of guilty pleasure, like absinthe or chocolate creams.

To specialists in energy efficiency, the 1960s-era buisding is a mess of a different sort: wasteful hot water heaters for the firefighters' showers, ancient refrigerators and outdated lights.