enervating

Example Sentences

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It gives the musical a rousing finish, but cannot erase the enervating effect of much of what has come before.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

Yet when he spoke following the haphazard 2-1 Europa League defeat on Thursday, there was a enervating familiarity about how the Rangers head coach explained away the outcome.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

Rachel — despite her challenges with Celeste, her old lover David, her ailing ex-husband and her enervating work life — also discovers good things about her new life as her body changes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

This hyperventilated quality initially serves the story and Chazelle’s concept of the era’s delirious excess, but the lack of modulation rapidly becomes enervating.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

And so she appeased Tochi, putting America down, talking only about the things she, too, disliked about America, exaggerating her non-American accent, until the conversation became an enervating charade.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie