EXHAUSTING in a Sentence

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I was sweating and exhausted by the time, the last skin suture was inserted and all that could be seen was the line of stitches.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXHAUSTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exhausting
 a.  tending to exhaust, enfeeble, or drain the strength
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing "hispy" and "gully-keeper" with a crowd of their schoolmates.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  He fancied that every wave behind him was a pursuing boat, and he redoubled his exertions, increasing rapidly his distance from the chateau, but exhausting his strength.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
3  The night-light continued to burn on the chimney-piece, exhausting the last drops of oil which floated on the surface of the water.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 102. Valentine.
4  Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort--for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time--the windmill was finished.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  After completely exhausting herself, she stopped to take breath: and, as if suddenly recollecting herself, and deploring her inability to do something she was bent upon, wrung her hands, and burst into tears.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  It will repay me enough to know that Scarlett will not be exhausting herself driving miles to the mills every day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  Without exhausting himself with fruitless efforts, the cunning Magua suffered his body to drop to the length of his arms, and found a fragment for his feet to rest on.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
9  She grew cross and wearisome; snapping at and teasing Catherine continually, at the imminent risk of exhausting her limited patience.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
11  It was rather chilly, and there was smoke on the rain, and a certain sense of exhaust vapour in the air.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  Check these tears; they do but exhaust you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
14  As with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly clinging to his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy float; nor did it so exhaust him as the previous day's mishap.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
15  It's true," said St. Clare, "that Eva is very delicate, that I always knew; and that she has grown so rapidly as to exhaust her strength; and that her situation is critical.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.
17  When your heart is getting exhausted to a certain extent,you are too weak to anger.
18  People who toiled in dim, dank factories were too exhausted to enjoy their family life.
19  The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted.
20  We have exhausted all possible legal remedies for this injustice.
21  We have exhausted all our material resources.
22  Totally exhausted, he tore his clothes off and fell into bed.
23  The overworked, overextended parent may be seen as unloving, but may simply be exhausted.
24  When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand.
25  I was sweating and exhausted by the time, the last skin suture was inserted and all that could be seen was the line of stitches.
26  The exertion spent in unscrewing the rusty bolt left her exhausted.
27  But since the beginning of June almost all domestic stocks seemed exhausted.
28  He works the crowd so long that the bodyguards hired by his attorney roll their eyes in exhaustion.
29  It was a constant wonder to me that my father didn't die of exhaustion.
30  We can define burnout as exhaustion.