EXHAUSTION in a Sentence

Learn EXHAUSTION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
242 example sentences for EXHAUSTION, such as:
1. My car needs a new exhaust.
2. We can define burnout as exhaustion.
3. I feel exhausted, but also triumphant.
4. The mine was closed owing to exhaustion.
5. His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXHAUSTION
exhaustion
 n.  extreme fatigue
 n.  the act of exhausting something entirely
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning blows came on suddenly and she gripped the carved roses under her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  But on the plantation the war and the world did not exist except as memories which must be fought back when they rushed to mind in moments of exhaustion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The flames raced ever beyond her, toward the walls of the covered runway, fiery snakes that writhed and leaped and, exhaustion sweeping her, she knew that it was hopeless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  He spoke pantingly, like a tired runner, with breaks of exhaustion between his words; and through the breaks she caught, as through the shifting rents of a fog, great golden vistas of peace and safety.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
5  Therefore, in his ordinary tone, only a little broken by the bodily exhaustion he was temporarily in, he answered him saying that sweeping the deck was not his business, and he would not do it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  His motions plainly denoted his extreme exhaustion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
7  Ona was scarcely able to stand with exhaustion; but if she were to lose her place they would be ruined, and she would surely lose it if she were not on time that day.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  They would wrap up in all they owned, but they could not wrap up against exhaustion; and many a man gave out in these battles with the snowdrifts, and lay down and fell asleep.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  At night he was tied down, lest he should kick the covers off him, while the family lay in their stupor of exhaustion.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
10  He was on Ashland Avenue before exhaustion compelled him to slow down, and then, noticing a car, he made a dart for it and drew himself aboard.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
11  He had not the same provocations of exhaustion and hopelessness; he had now something to work for, to struggle for.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
12  He was drinking, and developing a villainous temper, and he stormed and cursed and raged at his men, and drove them until they were ready to drop with exhaustion.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
13  He kept his eyes fixed on the orator, who sat in an armchair, his head leaning on his hand and his attitude indicating exhaustion.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
14  Himself reeling from exhaustion, he was astonished beyond measure at such persistency.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  He made vague plans to go off into the deeper darkness and hide, but they were all destroyed by the voices of exhaustion and pain from his body.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  He works the crowd so long that the bodyguards hired by his attorney roll their eyes in exhaustion.
2  It was a constant wonder to me that my father didn't die of exhaustion.
3  We can define burnout as exhaustion.
4  She was suffering from physical and mental exhaustion.
5  The mine was closed owing to exhaustion.
6  Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
7  My car needs a new exhaust.
8  The problem was that the exhaust gases contain many toxins.
9  When your exhaust falls off, you have to replace it.
10  The byproduct of the engine's combustion process is almost exclusively water vapor, which comes out of an exhaust pipe.
11  At the mountain area, tobacco crops exhaust available soil.
12  The streets of Beijing are thronged with two-wheeled contraptions; some appear to be conventional petrol mopeds but their eerie silence and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric.
13  I feel exhausted, but also triumphant.
14  She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
15  Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.