How to Use inefficiency in a Sentence

inefficiency

noun

• She claims that money can be saved by reducing inefficiencies.
• The candidate blamed her opponent for the local government's inefficiency.
• Israel has said the lack of aid is due to U.N. inefficiency.
  — Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
• The research about team inefficiency has been clear for more than a decade.
  — Mattias Bergstrom, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• That is, companies learned that the cost of empty shelves was higher than the cost of some inefficiency.
  — Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
• The Ravens buried themselves with turnovers, special-teams miscues and red-zone inefficiency in a 13-3 road loss to the Cleveland Browns.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2022
• The turnovers were gone, but the inefficiency was still there as the Bengals played catch-up for essentially the entirety of their 20-17 loss to the Cowboys.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
• CEFs are the only corner of the market with this sweet inefficiency.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Despite inefficiency on the boards, UAB is as tenacious as any team in the country on the defensive end.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 17 Nov. 2021
• After a month of red-zone inefficiency, Prescott found a wide-open Elliott cutting right for a 5-yard touchdown around the right side.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
• But one sequence late in the first half demonstrated the team’s inefficiency.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The inefficiency of Houston's guards is sinking the NBA's worst offense.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
• The inefficiencies and high costs of the defense market are necessary evils.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
• One that sees people as a dataset to mine and an inefficiency to overcome, or one that sees them as valuable and worthy of attention?
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• One of the biggest offensive issues for the Cowboys this season has been their inefficiency on third down.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Without their center, the Bulls will be stuck with inefficiency that plagued the center at midseason.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Research shows poor time-management is a big cause of inefficiency at work.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• Such grotesque inefficiencies would suggest an easy fix, if only the problem were so simple.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• Two things that have prevented the Aztecs from sustaining drives are penalties and third-down inefficiency.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• The Rockets pair this inefficiency with a heavy diet of half-court basketball, where 80 percent (good for No. 10 league-wide) of their possessions take place.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Dec. 2022
• Even a successful test flight may not be enough to satisfy SLS's many critics who bemoan the rocket's high price tag and inefficiency.
  — Loren Grush, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
• But beyond the sheer inefficiency, siloing disabled people to a handful of sanctioned apps is a tiny echo of how disabled people have been pushed out of public life time and time again.
  — S.e. Smith, The Verge, 13 June 2023
• Now, instead of big spending cuts, Truss has promised to find savings through slashing waste and inefficiency in the public sector, though some of her plans have already come unstuck.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• This means lots of siloed technology, technical debt and lots of risk and inefficiency.
  — David Nugent, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• The inefficiency of this process as well as the potential for inaccuracy was clear.
  — Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• He was sidelined because of injury, and then for inefficiency.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Dec. 2022
• Cartels have not given up on drones at the U.S.-Mexico border, despite the small aircraft’s inefficiency in smuggling meaningful amounts of drugs.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
• The best travel gadgets and electronics should highlight an inefficiency in your travel routine and help solve the problem.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
• Teams that feature big-play offenses generally can compensate for a lack of red-zone chances or inefficiency in the red zone.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2021
• The inefficiency and ineffectiveness from Hyde’s starters have downstream effects on the bullpen, which has been overworked already this month.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024