Still, although it was necessary that the pace should be quickened, the mules appeared to have lost all their former energy, as if some enervating drug had been mixed with their food.
Large drops of sweat stood in pearls on the forehead of Djalma, still plunged in enervating sleep--for it no longer resembled rest, but a painful stupor.
It took him centuries of fierce fighting to do so, with all the advantages of religious fanaticism on his side, as against an enemy weakened by internal dissension and an enervating climate.
In Ireland, Catholics have long since perceived and acknowledged that liberty--not the enervating influence of court favor--is the true bulwark of Catholic worship.
It was no enervating grief; "do not allow yourself to be weakened and self-absorbed by your trouble" was his perennial lesson to friends, who had lost dear ones.
There is "nothing worse than depression, nothing more enervating than self-contemplation.
The souls of the savages burned with fiery indignation as they contemplated the possibility of the adoption of this revolutionary, enervating and demoralizing practice of the pale faces by the noble red man.
And all this," he continued inwardly, "is the natural result of a long period of deadening, enervating peace.
There was not the slightest word said by her to show that she had disapproved his approaches now that the glamour of the moment, the enervating effects of close communion in the warm air of a spring night, were gone.
It was not an inspiriting week which he spent in that dreary place and enervating climate, with nothing to see but the goats feeding among the scrub, the turtles crawling about the sand, and the lepers following the turtles.
There were showers of rain sometimes, but the moisture in that baking atmosphere only added to its stifling and enervating effects.
Thus we must also subscribe to the "nine pages of enervating music.
She had an enervating way of asking unnecessary questions, and of laughing as though it hurt her.
Political verbiage and good living had anenervating effect on his morality.
March had gone out like an idiotic lamb, and April came in in sapping rain and enervating mist.
It had been a wretched day--a day of sopping rain and enervating mist.
More than ever it seemed to Tallente that the atmosphere of the room had changed, had become in some subtle way at the same time more enervating and more exciting.
In sunny Italy he lingered for some time, surrendering himself to every enervating indulgence, and even bartering the fortresses of France to purchase the luxuries in the midst of which he was reveling.
Luxurious and enervating habits of life, over-eating and sloth, with the over-indulgence in alcohol and tobacco, have the same effect.
The monotonously enervating heat of the humid tropics makes man sensitive to slight temperature changes.
To me it seems a very foolish custom to run away from the invigorating northern winters to the enervating sameness of southern climates.
They themselves had always their mad rush of dressing and their wild rush in the cloakroom for programmes, and a most enervating pause for partners and then the thing was done.
The enervating news was thus conveyed to her--Adelaide Maud put no scent on her handkerchiefs.
It's very enervating to be tactful, especially when your tact doesn't come off.
The folds of her scarlet gown gave off theenervating smell of poppies.
The folds of her dress gave off the enervating scent of poppies.
Such an atmosphere, it need hardly be said, is far more enervating than the hot and dry air of the Adelaide plains.
For a short time in the midsummer of each year, Sydney is visited regularly by moist sea breezes, which are enervating to many persons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enervating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
