is enervating
- present progressive of enervate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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It is enervating sitting in this deadly, static atmosphere with people thinking only of pen, ink, papers and figures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Began to feel hungry about lunch-time, but happily remembered that "it is not luxury which is enervating, it is over-eating."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
I kept her constantly out of doors, and never let her sit and sew alone, for one thing, or lounge in easy chairs, or do anything else that is enervating.
From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah
The climate is enervating, and when the east wind blows from the African coast it is impossible to move save in the most spiritless and languid way.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley
Mr. J. H. Willis, a Norwich scientist, writing in The Morning Post, condemns the daylight-saving movement on the ground that too much sunshine is enervating and that life is more virile in Northern latitudes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
