How do you use Wastefulness in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like waste or shortsightedness, plus the exact meaning.
Wastefulness in a sentence
Wastefulness meaning
imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
Synonyms of Wastefulness
Using Wastefulness
- The main meaning on this page is: imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
- Useful related words include: waste, thriftlessness, improvidence, shortsightedness.
- In the example corpus, wastefulness often appears in combinations such as: the wastefulness, wastefulness of, their wastefulness.
Context around Wastefulness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wastefulness
- In this selection, "wastefulness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rayners and established stand out and add context to how "wastefulness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about our wastefulness rather than and culture of wastefulness to our. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wastefulness" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wastefulness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kerala came through unscathed despite its wastefulness in front of goal. (11 words)
And the Loons paid for their wastefulness when San Jose finally came back to life. (15 words)
The wastefulness of Forest meant they were punished as the Blues equalised with their next attack. (16 words)
Isak made up for his wastefulness by netting the second in the 76th minute with a coolly taken penalty to seal the win, sending Trafford the wrong way after Newcastle were awarded a spot-kick for a foul on Anthony Gordon by Ameen Al-Dakhil. (45 words)
As much as us Boro fans are inclined to believe that in some capacity the football club has walked under several ladders, our lack of luck, or wastefulness, or whatever you want to call it just wasn’t going to last forever. (42 words)
The wastefulness of consumer society and throw-away culture compels some individuals to rescue usable items (for example, computers) from destruction and divert them to those who can make use of the items. (33 words)
Example sentences (13)
Isak made up for his wastefulness by netting the second in the 76th minute with a coolly taken penalty to seal the win, sending Trafford the wrong way after Newcastle were awarded a spot-kick for a foul on Anthony Gordon by Ameen Al-Dakhil.
The wastefulness of Forest meant they were punished as the Blues equalised with their next attack.
And the Loons paid for their wastefulness when San Jose finally came back to life.
As much as us Boro fans are inclined to believe that in some capacity the football club has walked under several ladders, our lack of luck, or wastefulness, or whatever you want to call it just wasn’t going to last forever.
But Albion fell to a 2-1 defeat in a lesson of wastefulness in the East Midlands.
Chirewa nearly punished Rayners’ wastefulness as he turned gloriously inside the box on the stroke of half-time, only to send his curling effort past a high-flying Williams in goal.
It was a very winnable match for the visitors — especially during a first half in which they were decisively the better side — before being punished for their wastefulness after the interval.
There is substantial empirical evidence linking this culture of wastefulness to our oil economy, which provides the government with oil revenues at all levels without accountability.
I think the Tesla in space thing says more about our wastefulness rather than polluting space (although space junk is a problem, especially for something like Kessler Syndrome).
Kerala came through unscathed despite its wastefulness in front of goal.
On his part, economics professor Ben Kaluwa agreed with Botolo that several studies calculating the cost of fuel and vehicle maintenance as well as travel on the overall government expenditure established wastefulness.
People born in this year are expected to possess qualities associated with rats, including creativity, intelligence, honesty, generosity, ambition, a quick temper and wastefulness.
The wastefulness of consumer society and throw-away culture compels some individuals to rescue usable items (for example, computers) from destruction and divert them to those who can make use of the items.
Common combinations with wastefulness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the wastefulness 2×
- wastefulness of 2×
- their wastefulness 2×
- of wastefulness 2×
- wastefulness in 2×