exhaustible

Example Sentences

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First, for an exhaustible resource, a rise in the interest rate increases the incentive to extract today and thus expand the available supply.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

“Because we know that money is exhaustible, but with these creative options, those are really largely inexhaustible.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

They are to stand in for a commodity, something exhaustible.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2018

This depends entirely on whether one believes that resiliency is an exhaustible or a sustainable resource.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2014

Besides, I’d moved enough times now to know that time was a fleeting, exhaustible thing.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi