exhaust

Example Sentences

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Saving the Academy, and possibly history as we knew it, was exhausting.

From Literature

Starving and exhausted, he spent the last of his money on a train ticket to Doncaster where his sister lived.

From Barron's

They might not know whether they'll get exhausted, if the weather will get worse, or how big the risk of a serious accident is.

From BBC

"It was exhausting for us, so I dread to think how poor Marigold felt."

From BBC

Out of their victory over sin and guilt, Hawthorne builds the “city on a hill” that the American republic would become: a dynamic vessel for people and ideas fleeing an exhausted Old World.

From The Wall Street Journal