Example Sentences

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"This was the exhaustiveness of the effort," Delacourt said.

From Fox News • Mar. 4, 2019

They seem intended, rather, to deliver an illusion of thoroughness, of completeness, of spectacular exhaustiveness, that no individual image suggests on its own.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 28, 2018

And though I sometimes got exhausted by the book’s exhaustiveness, I also know that people read and enjoy books for lots of different reasons.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2015

Their slapstick is inventive and comes with an almost encyclopedic exhaustiveness.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

Having thus shown his grasp of logical exhaustiveness in a manner unduly exhausting to the more intelligent, Wolf consented to resume his oration.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel