Sentence examples for were unproductive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Not productive; useless; fruitless.
- Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.
Set pieces were unproductive.
The biggest money could be made through business strategies that were unproductive.
Their vital signs were as comatose as their third-base coach's signs were unproductive.
The third Republican candidate, Ohio governor John Kasich, also said Nato should be reformed, but said the ideas of his rivals were unproductive.
In 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers began a nationwide strike to prevent the closing of 20 coal mines that the government claimed were unproductive.
He selects every play the Giants run, and since his choices near the goal line in Monday night's loss to Philadelphia were unproductive, Payton accepts that they were unpopular, too.
That, too, was unproductive.
"But being small is unproductive".
The Rangers' power play was unproductive again.
That would be "unproductive", he growls.
