EXHAUSTED in a Sentence

Learn EXHAUSTED from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For EXHAUSTED, below is one of 242 sentences:
Ethan's arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of EXHAUSTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exhausted
 a.  depleted; tired
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  "It's like being in an exhausted receiver," he thought.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Ethan's arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  People's faces looked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through the last lap of a race already lost.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  The exhausted horse did not respond to the whip or reins but shambled on, dragging his feet, stumbling on small rocks and swaying as if ready to fall to his knees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  She was too exhausted and weak from fright to tolerate weakness in anyone else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  There had been nothing to eat except milk since breakfast, for the yams were exhausted and Pork's snares and fishlines had yielded nothing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  Scarlett, lying exhausted in bed, feebly and silently thanked God that Ashley had too much sense to belong to the Klan and Frank was too old and poor spirited.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  Because she was too exhausted by her anger to do otherwise, Scarlett sulkily promised and went home, haughtily refusing any overtures of peace from her household.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  Her mind fled back to the night Tony Fontaine had come to them, hunted, exhausted, without money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  She felt exhausted in body and drained of emotions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
11  Bertha has been behaving more than ever like a madwoman, and George's powers of credulity are very nearly exhausted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
12  What exhausted her was the sight of Bea and Olaf turned into flaccid invalids, uncomfortably flushed after taking food, begging for the healing of sleep at night.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Their clothes and boots were steaming, and they both looked exhausted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
14  Surely, his exhausted spirit, so tired of cold and crowding and the struggle with the ever-falling snow, was resting now in this quiet house.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
15  He always bore down on the handles of the cultivator and drove the blades so deep into the earth that the horses were soon exhausted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  My car needs a new exhaust.
17  The problem was that the exhaust gases contain many toxins.
18  When your exhaust falls off, you have to replace it.
19  The byproduct of the engine's combustion process is almost exclusively water vapor, which comes out of an exhaust pipe.
20  At the mountain area, tobacco crops exhaust available soil.
21  The streets of Beijing are thronged with two-wheeled contraptions; some appear to be conventional petrol mopeds but their eerie silence and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric.
22  He works the crowd so long that the bodyguards hired by his attorney roll their eyes in exhaustion.
23  It was a constant wonder to me that my father didn't die of exhaustion.
24  We can define burnout as exhaustion.
25  She was suffering from physical and mental exhaustion.
26  The mine was closed owing to exhaustion.
27  After an exhausting drill in oppressive heat, Mia Hamm jogged off the field.
28  Rather than exhausting Maggie, dancing and singing energize her.
29  This is the most exhausting and eventful day of my life.
30  Apart from me being stupid, New York in summer is warm and exhausting, which is a new experience for me.