enervated

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023

Dramatically, though, Kreutzer’s increasingly ahistoric retelling starts to feel inert, as enervated and suffused with ennui as its world-weary heroine.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2023

Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2019

He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly