EXHAUSTIVE in a Sentence

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242 example sentences for EXHAUSTIVE, such as:
1. My car needs a new exhaust.
2. This list is by no means exhaustive.
3. I feel exhausted, but also triumphant.
4. When your exhaust falls off, you have to replace it.
5. At the mountain area, tobacco crops exhaust available soil.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of EXHAUSTIVE
exhaustive
 a.  treating all parts or aspects without omission; comprehensive
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  How exhaustive and unpleasant such a process would be, he saw even more vividly after his two hours' talk with poor Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
2  The patient and I then plunged into a discussion of his case, of which I took exhaustive notes.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
3  It was rather chilly, and there was smoke on the rain, and a certain sense of exhaust vapour in the air.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  Check these tears; they do but exhaust you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
6  As with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly clinging to his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy float; nor did it so exhaust him as the previous day's mishap.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
7  It's true," said St. Clare, "that Eva is very delicate, that I always knew; and that she has grown so rapidly as to exhaust her strength; and that her situation is critical.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  However, this is according to the tactics of barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
9  Remain, then, where you are, and do not exhaust yourselves with useless fatigue.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 60 IN FRANCE
10  Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  Which ill-practices of theirs, though they quiet things for a time, must in the end exhaust their resources, and give rise in seasons of danger to incurable mischief and disorder.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX.
12  "It's like being in an exhausted receiver," he thought.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
13  Ethan's arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  People's faces looked pinched and the few soldiers Scarlett saw wore the exhausted look of racers forcing themselves on through the last lap of a race already lost.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  The exhausted horse did not respond to the whip or reins but shambled on, dragging his feet, stumbling on small rocks and swaying as if ready to fall to his knees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  This list is by no means exhaustive.
2  This is by no means an exhaustive list but it gives an indication of the many projects taking place.
3  We have made an exhaustive study of all published materials and are happy to share our research with you.
4  Fiorina's exhaustive schedule is emblematic of candidates who enter the race without a lick of national name ID.
5  Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
6  My car needs a new exhaust.
7  The problem was that the exhaust gases contain many toxins.
8  When your exhaust falls off, you have to replace it.
9  The byproduct of the engine's combustion process is almost exclusively water vapor, which comes out of an exhaust pipe.
10  At the mountain area, tobacco crops exhaust available soil.
11  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.
12  I feel exhausted, but also triumphant.
13  She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
14  Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.
15  When your heart is getting exhausted to a certain extent,you are too weak to anger.