Sentence Examples

  • Pitt's debts were the result of a wasteful indifference to his private affairs.
  • That it is a wasteful process to put nitrates and manure together on the land.
  • Deville made many improvements, but the method remained wasteful and uneconomical, and in 1872 the metal cost 4s.
  • Even when due allowance has been made for the financial disorder which the Convention inherited from previous assemblies, and for the war which it had to wage against a formidable alliance, it cannot be acquitted of reckless and wasteful maladministration.
  • The American bale has been described in a standard American book on cotton as " the clumsiest, dirtiest, most expensive and most wasteful package, in which cotton or any other commodity of like value is anywhere put up."
 
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