Efficient

//ɪˈfɪʃənt//

"Efficient" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Can you guess which cooler is the most efficient?

This computer is powerful, efficient, and easy to use.

Efficient machinery replaced manual labor.

The new secretary doesn't strike me as efficient.

I hope I am very efficient.

It is hard to imagine a more efficient way of catching food.

The Japanese telephone system is highly efficient.

He doesn't strike me as efficient.

There is no denying that she is very efficient.

She is very efficient in the secretarial work.

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An efficient process would automate all the routine work.

Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

The motor is only 20% efficient at that temperature.

Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained

It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

Ye wake no more to anguish;‥ ye have borne The Chosen, the Destroyer!‥ soon his hand Shall strike the efficient blow; Soon shaking off your penal forms, shall ye, With songs of joy, amid the Eden groves, Hymn the Deliverer’s praise!

The Efficient Cause is that from which emanates the force that produces the Effect

Some are without efficient, as God; others without matter, as Angels […].

This implies, that something happens without a cause. If it should be said, that motive in this case is not the efficient of the action or doing — this is granted; but at the same time, for reasons already given, it is denied, that the man himself is the efficient cause of it.

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