Example Sentences

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But her energy and hope never feel like depletable resources.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

“We’ll start capturing the value of those depletable assets,” said Brian Mastel, the finance commissioner, “and monetize them into an endowment fund for the community.”

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017

Accordingly, the market has powerful incentives to "conserve," that is, to shift the consumption of large volumes of depletable resources into future periods.

From US News • May 25, 2016

The partnerships are required to derive 90 percent of their income from certain sources, including only depletable natural resources like oil and coal.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2013

There is no smooth transition, no gradual slowing down of activity; rather, the economic system consumes successively larger amounts of the depletable resources until they are gone.

From The Universe — or Nothing by Moldeven, Meyer