Example Sentences

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The long wait at the peak had enervated her.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2013

The contest was too unequal, till the introduction of luxury had enervated the vigor, and a spirit of disobedience and sedition had relaxed the discipline, of the Roman armies.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart

A long interval of tranquillity had enervated the planters of Virginia: luxury had introduced effeminate manners and dissolute habits.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles

I was young; I had good health; pleasure and I had never met; no indulgence of hers had enervated or sated one faculty of my nature.

From The Professor by Brontë, Charlotte

The tropics had enervated him, though he made no such confession.

From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Comfort, Will Levington