Example Sentences

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“She was always glued to the news … it was depleting her.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

Decades ago, lab work was enough to figure out the complex chemistry that was depleting the ozone hole, Cziczo says.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2020

Jackson was asked in an interview when she returned to Broadway last year, to star in “Three Tall Women,” if acting was depleting.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2019

But to see women’s pain reiterated so endlessly and broadly was depleting in ways I simply didn’t expect.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018

Consulting the compass so often was depleting our match supply, and I tried to depend on the faint breath of a breeze which sometimes seemed to die away altogether.

From Three Times and Out by McClung, Nellie L.