enervate

Example Sentences

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Among the takeaways from the play is how enervating it can be to have to plead constantly for access and understanding.

From New York Times

Moreover, this episode is edited in such a busy manner that enervated viewers may just wait it out to see who lives, who dies and how any double crosses play out.

From Salon

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

Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy.

From Los Angeles Times

Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.”

From Washington Post