exhaustible

Example Sentences

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First, for an exhaustible resource, a rise in the interest rate increases the incentive to extract today and thus expand the available supply.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

“Because we know that money is exhaustible, but with these creative options, those are really largely inexhaustible.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

This depends entirely on whether one believes that resiliency is an exhaustible or a sustainable resource.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2014

"Instead, most of us in the states, we think of water like the air, it's infinite and inexhaustible, when for all practical purposes it's finite and it's exhaustible."

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2014

Besides, I’d moved enough times now to know that time was a fleeting, exhaustible thing.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi