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.
  • For one, the inefficiency that plagued him last year is back in full force this year.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Top teams do not have this measure of inefficiency on their top two lines.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The research about team inefficiency has been clear for more than a decade.
    — Mattias Bergstrom, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • At low volumes, inefficiencies may hide in the cracks.
    — Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The game felt out of reach there due to Atlanta’s inefficiencies.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
  • There are some ways that a smart company might seek to wring real inefficiencies out of health care.
    — Margot Sanger-Katz and Reed Abelson, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The gap is not just a market inefficiency.
    — Cyriac Roeding, Time, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The cost is not just inefficiency.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Air leaks aren't just a problem of inefficiency.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2025
  • These inefficiencies tend to result in less useful product per ton of feed coal.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Jan. 2026
  • That sort of inefficiency tends to go in cycles throughout a season.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • This rampant inefficiency at the plate led to a quiet, somber postgame clubhouse.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • That is, companies learned that the cost of empty shelves was higher than the cost of some inefficiency.
    — Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • But one sequence late in the first half demonstrated the team’s inefficiency.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • More government means more waste, more inefficiency and more fraud, hence higher costs.
    — Star Parker, Boston Herald, 2 May 2026
  • Attempting both roles alone leads to inefficiency and stress.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • To address this inefficiency, torpedo bats are made with more wood in the sweet spot and less wood elsewhere—thus, the bulge.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Poor trust leads to delays, higher prices and inefficiencies.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Lastly, there are some inefficiencies in the loan market, Krug said.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Just like in life, slowness isn’t inefficiency.
    — Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 24 Sep. 2025
  • And the Pats deal down in the draft, manage the cap with balance across the roster, and strike on inefficiencies.
    — Albert Breer, The MMQB, 27 June 2017
  • These inefficiencies, on top of inflating costs, can delay care and add to your staffing burdens.
    — Charles Wong, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Besides, a lot of the Beavers’ inefficiency was due to things that the Hoyas were doing to them.
    — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The problem with scaling bandwidth and power comes down to lasers and their inefficiency.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The second one is the inefficiency of the capture process itself, although there are ways this could be better.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The absurdity of this project is clear in its inefficiency.
    — Chuck Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But if inefficiencies can’t be ironed out, the provider, not the insurance company, is on the hook for the overrun.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2019
  • Scouts also worry about his shooting inefficiencies in the paint.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025

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