exhaustible
- a word derived from exhaust.
Example Sentences
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The trees show management of these forests, Earnshaw said, by the island’s first people to protect what was an exhaustible resource.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
“The more you do, the more you can do. It’s not an exhaustible resource, it works the opposite way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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
