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Inefficient in sentence

489 examples of Inefficient in a sentence

Make your network slightly more inefficient.
We've got to make ourselves a little more inefficient, and by doing so, we are creating a more imprecise social search engine.
Most pollen that causes hay fever for us is from plants that use the wind to disseminate the pollen, and that's a very inefficient process, which is why it gets up our noses so much.
We have 1.4 million expensively deployed, inefficient radio cellular base stations.
The one thing we need to do is we have to replace these inefficient incandescent light bulbs, florescent lights, with this new technology of LED, LED light bulbs.
The state should not be in the business of producing goods and services because it's inefficient and incompetent.
Because typically they've been too inefficient, inaccessible, they've not been fast enough, they've been quite expensive.
Now, that's great if you're lighting the indoors, but in its application in outdoor lighting, that traditional shape of the light bulb, the sort of globe that spreads light everywhere, is actually very inefficient.
This isn't just inconvenient, this is inefficient, it's expensive, it's harmful to human health, harmful to the environment, and it's unproductive.
But today's energy system is not just inefficient, it is also disconnected, aging, dirty and insecure.
The sales can grow and the prices fall even faster with temporary feebates, that is rebates for efficient new autos paid for by fees on inefficient ones.
Unfortunately, our beasts are inefficient animals, and they turn two-thirds of that into feces and heat, so we've lost those two, and we've only kept this one in meat and dairy products.
Given 20th-century technology, it was simply inefficient to try and concentrate too much data and too much power in one place.
Unfortunately, this is often lacking or inefficient in a lot of developing countries.
Twenty percent of the electricity in homes is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have inefficient lightbulbs.
Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient.
These are places that do have road infrastructure, but it's very inefficient.
But one of the things about learning how to read, we have been doing a lot of consuming of information going through our eyes, and so that may be a very inefficient channel.
Early in that process, one of the engineers had gone to Bill and said, "We're all too busy for this inefficient system of running parallel experiments."
And these technologies were very promising, but the problem was that they were either inefficient, or they were difficult enough to use that most scientists had not adopted them for use in their own laboratories, or certainly for many clinical applications.
But counting people one a time is pretty inefficient, too, no? Surely, we can do better!
They're also incredibly fuel inefficient to bring to the market.
If our communities are broken, don't let the lawyers that you elect fix them with outdated, inefficient, expensive methods.
You seem to be saying that the key selling points of your product are that it is inefficient and complex.
The problem was, the way we manufactured these systems was very inefficient, had low yield and was very error-prone.
But we feel for them, and that matters, because if we're trying to integrate robots into these shared spaces, we need to understand that people will treat them differently than other devices, and that in some cases, for example, the case of a soldier who becomes emotionally attached to the robot that they work with, that can be anything from inefficient to dangerous.
We're really good at things that are inefficient.
Science is inherently inefficient.
Innovation by definition is inefficient, because you make prototypes, because you try stuff that fails, that doesn't work.
We can easily resign to the fact or to the thinking that government is too inefficient, too corrupt, unfixable.
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