Sentence examples for used wastefully from inspiring English sources
"used wastefully" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe someone or something that has failed to use something in an efficient manner. For example, "The company used its resources wastefully, resulting in a drastic reduction in profits."
They contended that the enormous social costs incurred in production were not reflected in market prices and that resources were often used wastefully.
Corruption means that too much GDP growth has been squandered, and that much of the huge stimulus measures unleashed since the 2008 financial crisis has been syphoned off, or used wastefully on flawed projects.
But campaigners and scientists are increasingly sounding the alarm over the amount of plastic that is used wastefully (think of single-use drink bottles and packaging), or that ends up as trash in rivers and oceans.
The problem is that when the price of a good is below its cost, people use it wastefully.
Energy and water are used much more wastefully than if these resources were priced properly.
When they mocked her and called her a "dyke," she would dumbfoundingly quote Lorca at them: "Poetry was your only response to anything they did or said and you used it as wastefully as somebody emptying a cartridge into grey sky.
For Facebook, a company with near limitless (and some would say wastefully used) resources, the evidence is damning.
A pinch to the tune of $4.50 to $5 for a gallon of gasoline would go much further to move us from dependency on foreign oil and to spur us to use this resource less wastefully in more efficient automobiles, as most of the rest of the world has learned to do.
Spending, see the dictionary, deals primarily with money, but its strictures extend to life as a whole: "to consume, employ, use super-fluously, wastefully, or with undue lavishness; to waste or squander; to throw away".
The real point is that productivity is still low in ex-communist countries: ie, they are using the labour wastefully (I recommend a visit to any government department on a Friday afternoon if you don't believe me).
Cutting the growth of its carbon emissions happens to fit well with China's longstanding campaign to use energy less wastefully and reduce its dependence on imported oil (see chart 4).
