EFFICIENCY in a Sentence

Learn EFFICIENCY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
64 example sentences for EFFICIENCY, such as:
1. He has an efficient business setup.
2. Her efficiency shamed and dazzled him.
3. The production efficiency is lamed by the old machines.
4. Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency.
5. Fairness, rather than efficiency, is the guiding principle.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EFFICIENCY
efficiency
 n.  the ratio of the output to the input of any system
 n.  skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Zenobia, though doubtful of the girl's efficiency, was tempted by the freedom to find fault without much risk of losing her; and so Mattie came to Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Her efficiency shamed and dazzled him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
4  To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooneers of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
5  Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  And every week the managers of it got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  Having got them fairly on board, and the boat being off, he came round, with that air of efficiency which ever characterized him, to take a review of them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  And yet, against their will, they had developed a certain respect for the efficiency with which the animals were managing their own affairs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
9  I sent out for a fresh supply, and mixed the draught; the ebullition followed, and the first change of colour, not the second; I drank it and it was without efficiency.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
10  Clifford's strange business efficiency in a way over-awed her, and his declaration of private worship put her into a panic.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  Sure was I of His efficiency to save what He had made: convinced I grew that neither earth should perish, nor one of the souls it treasured.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Here, I may say, we have no other thought than to win the Government's esteem through good order, vigilance, and efficiency.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
13  And to all this must be added the obvious fact that a slave ancestry and a system of unrequited toil has not improved the efficiency or temper of the mass of black laborers.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
14  She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  But, she felt approvingly, as she discovered her career of town-planning, she was now roused to being brisk and efficient herself.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Such action can be justified on the grounds of greater efficiency.
2  They need only announce a general aim of improving efficiency or international competitiveness and their case is virtually made for them.
3  The application of new scientific discoveries to industrial production methods usually increases efficiency.
4  OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of astragaloside liposome and determine its entrapment efficiency.
5  New timekeeping procedures had been introduced as part of an efficiency drive.
6  Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency.
7  The production efficiency is lamed by the old machines.
8  Fairness, rather than efficiency, is the guiding principle.
9  New Scientist took up some original thought on an old idea, the flywheel, which can store energy with high efficiency.
10  The program was implemented with great efficiency and speed.
11  The BBC says the efficiency savings are vital for it to respond to rapid changes in technology.
12  We must make the most efficient use of the available financial resources.
13  He has an efficient business setup.
14  The creation of an efficient and sustainable transport system is critical to the long-term future of London.
15  Taking risks is the only way employees can provide effective and efficient customer service.