Example Sentences

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It enervates a person, and what’s the point in that?

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

And nothing enervates me more than raw tortilla.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2018

Food is fuel, the right kind can energize the wrong kind enervates.

From Scientific American • May 16, 2012

A real nightmare puzzles, enervates or scares the victim, and it is a rash man who tries to tell about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

By separating duty from interest which ruins it, and from sentiment which enervates it, Kant restored to ethics their true character.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor