exhausting

Example Sentences

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Caring for him is so exhausting that she often retreats to “the comforting quiet” of the cell—which, in a perverse way, affords her a kind of homecoming to the country she left behind.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had worked so hard to make people like him, and it got exhausting.

From Literature

Just the boys’ voices on the bus were exhausting for me.

From Literature

And then she spoke the most powerful and exhausting, the bravest, most exasperating and galvanic sentence in the human language.

From Literature

“Goodness, I can’t tell you what a relief it is to speak these things aloud, Colonel. The Secrets Act is most exhausting.”

From Literature