exhaustible

Example Sentences

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The trees show management of these forests, Earnshaw said, by the island’s first people to protect what was an exhaustible resource.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2023

“The more you do, the more you can do. It’s not an exhaustible resource, it works the opposite way.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 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