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Example sentences for "exhausting"

Lexicographically close words:
exhalent; exhales; exhaling; exhaust; exhausted; exhaustion; exhaustive; exhaustively; exhaustless; exhausts
  1. We have not got to obtain such and such results from the natives by the end of the year, as officials and traders have, and therefore this exhausting contest is not so hard a one for us as for them.

  2. After exhausting entreaty, we prevailed upon one of the natives by a bribe of half-a-dollar to strike a fire by means of the flint and tinder which they commonly carry about them.

  3. As they began the steep, exhausting climb, the clouds suddenly broke and Mauwallauwin flooded the valley with his soft, mystic light.

  4. His anxiety for his friend made him impatient, and he traveled at an exhausting pace.

  5. I think the pressure of a good deal of mechanical work, not of an exhausting kind, clears the brain and makes it vigorous.

  6. The ruin and disorder are exhausting all their means of living, And we show no kindness to our multitudes.

  7. Great Heaven, unjust, Is sending down these exhausting disorders.

  8. The Trade Union pronounced polishing to be filthy and exhausting work, and degrading to women, and declared the employers only wanted to set women on it for the sake of cheapness.

  9. Many girls spent weeks in the heart-sickening and exhausting search for employment.

  10. No words can describe how painful and exhausting is such a sight as that of beholding the hidden recesses of hearts, the love and constancy of our Saviour, and to know at the same time all that is going to befall him.

  11. She had been accustomed to continue hard labour in the fields, at all seasons of the year, and her strength was also necessarily much tried by the exhausting and supernatural states through which she so frequently passed.

  12. But amid those vicissitudes of good or bad fortune, Spain continued to Buonaparte the same harassing and exhausting undertaking, which it had been almost from the commencement.

  13. Those suffering from high blood pressure will find this treatment of unusual value, though great care should, of course, be taken to avoid any movements that are in any way exhausting or violent.

  14. You will find no more effective means of diversion from exhausting mental responsibilities, since you cannot think of something else while devoting your entire attention to singing.

  15. I have put in a long and exhausting day in the court to-day in the case of Merkins vs.

  16. It is, however, not to be called a disease: unless it proceeds to an exhausting degree, it must be looked upon as favorable and salutary.

  17. The heat which they maintain about the body is inconvenient and dangerous, predisposing to flooding and exhausting perspirations.

  18. Volumes could be written without exhausting this subject; I, in a few brief pages, have only touched it lightly.

  19. Anodynes produce sleep, so as to rest the patient and allow recuperation for the succeeding struggle of the vitality of the animal against the exhausting drain of the disease.

  20. Symptoms of renal calculi are violent, colicky, pains, appearing suddenly, very often in connection with exhausting work or the drawing of specially heavy loads, and in certain cases disappearing with equal suddenness.

  21. It is no use, as after an exhausting fight for breath he goes down; the limbs stretch out and become rigid.

  22. This may arise from general debility, the result of exhausting disease, overwork, or heart strain, or loss of blood.

  23. It may, however, arise in the absence of any previous disease in badly ventilated stables, among poorly fed horses, and in animals subject to exhausting work and extreme temperatures.

  24. This results from blows and other injuries, and also in some cases from too frequent and exhausting service.

  25. When the present demand for exhausting self-supporting work becomes less insistent, we shall feel in a deeper, more vital way the influence of our vast foreign life.

  26. Their pay for this dangerous, exhausting toil averages eleven dollars a week.

  27. It was a constant alternation of fearful excitement and complete depression, exhausting the whole system.

  28. You have had excitement enough for to-day, and after your exhausting voyage must need rest.

  29. I found them intolerable in the mood in which I was, nothing so exhausting as the abstract!

  30. Now, do be very careful of yourself, my dear Miriam, or you may have one of your sleepy attacks, and they are exhausting to Nature, trying to both body and soul.

  31. Of this, however, he was not thinking as he stretched himself out on his pallet to rest a little from the exhausting labors of the day.

  32. They can then see only a part of the proceedings, and have a weary, exhausting time of it for hours.

  33. I confess that, after such an exhausting campaign, I felt a great temptation to retire, and call it a drawn engagement.

  34. And so in the heat of this exhausting August, at the time when his body most needed re-enforcement for the toil he required of it, he was more rigid in his spiritual tyranny and contempt of it.

  35. I could avoid merely compiling for them a bibliographical dictionary, but I could not treat at length of each offender in my catalogue, without, in so exhausting my subject, exhausting at the same time my reader's patience.

  36. But the brave fellows had learned that General Sherman always had a reason for his movements, and cheerfully advanced to the rescue through exhausting trial and peril.

  37. They toil on, their leader sharing with them the exhausting labor, till three divisions, on the 23d, are sheltered from the observation of the enemy behind the hills, opposite the mouth of the Chickamauga.

  38. Advancing years, an enfeebled constitution, a singularly exhausting and painful form of disease, had compelled him to give way to a disposition naturally indolent and unsuited to the constant mastery of dry administrative detail.

  39. Lord Randolph returned from Germany none the better for his rest and plunged forthwith into an exhausting campaign.

  40. These were perhaps the busiest days of his life, and the amount of work of the most exhausting character which he contrived to discharge astonished all who knew him.

  41. They encountered, as they expected to do, fearful perils and exhausting hardships.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exhausting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arduous; boring; burdensome; clearance; clearing; depletion; detailed; drainage; draining; dull; egress; elimination; emptying; evacuation; excretion; exhausting; exhaustion; fatiguing; forced; grinding; grueling; hard; harsh; heavy; irksome; killing; laborious; murderous; onerous; oppressive; punishing; removal; stiff; straining; strenuous; stressful; tedious; tiresome; tiring; toilsome; trying; unloading; weakening; wearisome; wearying; weighty