EFFICIENCY in a Sentence

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But, she felt approvingly, as she discovered her career of town-planning, she was now roused to being brisk and efficient herself.

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 Meanings and Examples of EFFICIENCY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
efficiency
 n.  effectiveness; quality or property of being efficient; ratio of useful output to the total input in any system
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 Mitche
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)
16  This is currently the most efficient way to transmit certain types of data like electronic mail.
17  Service was outstandingly friendly and efficient, falling down on only one detail.
18  With today's more efficient contraception women can plan their families and careers.
19  The heating system has recently been modified to make it more efficient.
20  A troubleshooter is being appointed to make the prison service more efficient.
21  The current structure does not facilitate efficient work flow.
22  Businesses can also use this opportunity to invest in alternate, perhaps more efficient, energy sources - which will help our economy in the long-run.
23  One way to conserve is to make cars more efficient.
24  To make it more efficient and receive much needed World Bank funds, the government wants to shed 14,000 jobs.
25  Trains are less subsidized than roads, and much more efficient in metropolitan areas.
26  For the electric automobile, light and efficient storage batteries is the source of the kinetic energy to propel the vehicle.
27  Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient.
28  Canadian Clear Water has designed the most economical and efficient sea water desalination plants.
29  Amazon has patented a wristband that tracks the hand movements of warehouse workers and uses vibrations to nudge them into being more efficient.
30  The worker oils the machine to operate it more efficiently.