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Example sentences from the Web for enervatingCome 6:30, the long, enervating adventure was gaveled close, at last setting everyone free. Obamacare 37, Republicans 0: House GOP Loses Again on Repeal Vote|Michelle Cottle|May 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST But the slog to November 6th has been dispiriting and enervating enough to put many of us in touch with our inner 4-year-old. A Crying Toddler Viral Video Reflects Cranky, Exhausting Election|Michelle Cottle|November 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST In Arctic lands labor is paralyzed by cold as it is by heat in the enervating and overproductive Tropics. Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple As it leads to vain regrets, it is at best an enervating enjoyment, and a needless pain. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists|James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Stephen
He has had more than enough of that enervating work in Greek waters. In Greek Waters|G. A. Henty The air is weighted down with heavy, resinous odours, and an enervating warmth has descended to the depths of the lower forests. In the Brooding Wild|Ridgwell Cullum The river was now but a source of enervating intoxication, voluptuous languor, which disturbed them strangely. The Fortune of the Rougons|Emile Zola
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