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

To be sure, not every episode has been equally good — one or two I would describe as not good — and some story arcs I found more rewarding, or more enervating, than others.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

So welcome to the most lopsided and enervating Venice Biennale in recent memory, which came together amid a global pandemic and now opens under the sign of a European land war.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022

On July 20, in the midst of an enervating heat wave in Austria, he traveled from Brno to Vienna to take the oral part of the exam.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee