enervate

Example Sentences

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It’s been an enervating, affirming winter slog, but we made it, and with the first ball tossed this morning, the summer of sport – the ridiculous summer of sport – is upon us.

From The Guardian

These 60 or so enervated antennae project from the roundworm fuselage and are used to smell, taste, touch, take the temperature, and otherwise sense their environment.

From Scientific American

And don’t forget Winnie, onstage, buried in dirt but prattling on and on to her enervated husband.

From Washington Post

There is a seriousness to Ruben and Carlos’s relationship that becomes enervating.

From New York Times

It’s especially enervating, she said, when you’re adjacent to people being canceled for their coverage of other people who have been canceled.

From New York Times