exhausting

Example Sentences

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"The purchases were undertaken strictly out of extreme necessity as an extraordinary emergency measure in response to unprecedented geopolitical and supply-chain disruptions and only after exhausting all commercially and operationally viable alternatives," the report reads.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Head nurse Ali Omeis said it was exhausting to be dealing with another war so soon.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Many insurers now require precertification, which makes ordering an exercise echocardiogram an exhausting and time-consuming exercise.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

The bots possess an exhausting reflex to present both sides of every issue, creating a false, artificial balance even when the counterargument is absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

She might have slept longer, after the exhausting hike of the previous day, but that plunk—plunk—plunking sound was as insistent as a blacksmith’s hammer.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood