Use "enervating" in a sentence

1. ” If democratic citizens should abandon religion and rely only upon themselves, Tocqueville cautions, that would generate “a politically enervating status” that would “prepare a people for bondage

2. it wasn’t Sharon and Kirk fell again into the enervating hollowness that gripped him each time the returning prisoners didn’t include Sharon

3. Desert air is hot, dry and enervating – I was very tired and would have preferred to impale myself on the chauffeur’s dagger than struggle to converse in my increasingly inadequate French and his six words of English

4. Rather than facing the ensuing day with exhaustion the experience is uplifting and enervating

5. “I love him because he is kind and generous to me and despite his enervating interrogations which after all are not misplaced

6. Plato has himself admitted, in the earlier part of the Republic, that the arts might have the effect of harmonizing as well as of enervating the mind; but in the Tenth Book he regards them through a Stoic or Puritan medium

7. Morrel hesitated to advance; he dreaded the enervating effect of all that he saw

8. The raw, drenching chill was worse, more enervating, than a fiercer, harder cold might have been

9. The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now

10. The three o'clock sun shone full upon him, and the strange enervating conviction that her seducer confronted her, which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed

11. There was no denial of his neuroses; he seemed to find them amusing rather than enervating

12. It was hot in Darwin, with a damp enervating heat that brought her out in streams of perspiration at the slightest movement

13. I felt that stinging hurt again all over my skin, the hurt I'd felt when Rowan had been railing at me at the Retreat House, an enervating, crippling pain