exhausting

[ US /ɪɡˈzɔstɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzˈɔːstɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. producing exhaustion
    an exhausting march
    the visit was especially wearing
  2. having a debilitating effect
    an exhausting job in the hot sun
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How To Use exhausting In A Sentence

  • Liz smiles professionally and holds Larry, who wheezes and splutters, enduring his hardship with a stoicism that looks exhausting.
  • We may observe here the singular paradox, which we believe that the philosophy of the mind and the experience of the scholar equally establish, that what are usually called the heaviest or severest subjects of thought are the least exhausting to the thinker. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
  • Conducting oral history interviews can be both exhilarating and exhausting.
  • This included an exhausting half hour walk from a nearby parking space to the reception area and thence to the outpatient clinic.
  • Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney. Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
  • It was all very exhausting and draining. Christianity Today
  • The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. 
  • I had to get up way before her father left for work so that she wasn’t left alone, but that got plain exhausting in about 5 minutes so I got fat instead. it is very difficult to exercise when a small child is with you. Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 26 Feb
  • He is the type not of the charmingly nutty but of the exhaustingly garrulous professor.
  • It's exhausting and emotionally draining. Times, Sunday Times
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