depletein a sentence
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The poorer a country's people are, the greater the temptation to deplete the country's forests and fisheries.
deplete = use up without replacement
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His problem was that black paint was normally used more as a mixer, to darken other colors, and it was soon depleted and hard to find.
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depleted = use up without having been replaced
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Our bottles and skin are fairly full, but with two drinking and this hot sun it won't take long to deplete them.
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deplete = use up
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I quickly depleted my two extra lives, and GAME OVER flashed on the screen.
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depleted = used up
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Hunger, thirst, and exposure to blistering sun by day and chill by night depleted survivors with frightening rapidity.
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depleted = drained (of energy)
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…which is preferable — to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as…
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depleted = drained
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No one in the cabins (as far as he could tell) had ever done more than scratch their heads at their depleted larder.
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depleted = used up without having been replaced
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It had become, in a very real way, a wealthy home, even though Morrie's bank account was rapidly depleting.
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depleting = being used up
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After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted.
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depleted = used up
- The Metropol's larder was depleted bushel by bushel, pound by pound, dash by dash, and its chef was left to meet the expectations of his audience with cornmeal, cauliflower, and cabbage—that is to say, with whatever he could get his hands on.† (source)
- The first stage depleted its fuel, and the booster coasted for a fraction of a second as it jettisoned stage clamps via explosive bolts.† (source)
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- By noon the smell of the sea was eviscerated, the sight of it mistily depleted, too; one's field of vision narrowed in close, went blurry and snowbound, fuzzy and opaque, the sharp scent of frost burned in the nostrils of those who ventured out of doors.† (source)
- My fuel cells are depleted.† (source)
- Its purpose seemed ominous, and Thomas searched his memory-depleted mind to work out what it could possibly be but came up empty.† (source)
- She reached for another dagger, but found she'd depleted her stock again.† (source)
- I'm dying to drink the rest, but I can't deplete his supply, too.† (source)
- Depleted and alone in the fountain, Langdon half-expected to collapse.† (source)
- There was problem after prob-lem to overcome, not least of which was that their store of Polyjuice Potion was greatly depleted.† (source)
- When the train pulled out of Hangzhou the next day, the Hsus found themselves depleted of some nine thousand dollars' worth of goodwill.† (source)
- What if he was a villain whose powers were depleted as soon as the light of the world hit his eyes?† (source)
- Cinder scanned her ID as she exited so the hover could debit her nearly depleted account, then ordered it to wait for her.† (source)
- Hunger, thirst, and fear had thoroughly depleted me.† (source)
- A race of aliens that depleted their planet's resources in the quest for advancement, now doing the same thing here.† (source)
- Eragon guessed that more than a few purses would soon be depleted.† (source)
- My magic was depleted.† (source)
- Siri accepted her depleted cup without commenting.† (source)
- These flaming brands ignited a fire that, in those narrow confines, soon depleted the available air and extinguished its own flames, leaving in their place a superheated plasma that needed only a fresh supply of oxygen to become explosive.† (source)
- They'd depleted much of their ammunition.† (source)
- It didn't matter if the subject was legalization of marijuana, reinstating the death penalty, or the oil-depletion allowance.† (source)
- Though the legend may not be fact, what is true is that through the years, when Shadowhunter ranks were depleted, it was always possible to create more Shadowhunters using the Cup.† (source)
- When he was finished, the bag on his left hip was full of old badges, and the one on his right depleted of new ones.† (source)
- The special New Year food had virtually been depleted, and there was no time or money for us to go shopping.† (source)
- This reduces to a minimum the number of transactions in which the distribution unit is depleted (the roll runs out) during the transaction, a situation that can lead to emotional stress for the affected employee.† (source)
- He doesn't like depleting the stockpile.† (source)
- That first month ended much like it had begun, with a soaking wet, cold, tired, and depleted class.† (source)
- Even for someone of her commitment and zeal, it was depleting work.† (source)
- To my oxygen-depleted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cum* looked innocuous, wispy, insubstantial.† (source)
- Caroline felt suddenly depleted, almost faint.† (source)
- She smiled in a pale and depleted way.† (source)
- Bernard and Goretti grew bananas, cassava, potatoes, and beans on a depleted half-acre plot, but they barely earned enough to survive.† (source)
- I think we found the answer to our problems for the ozone layer depletion," Alex teases.† (source)
- Yet, with so many to feed, what food they had was depleted quickly.† (source)
- Cullivan, in appearance a cautious bank clerk with depleted hair and a face rather difficult to recall, agreed that outwardly he hadn't changed much.† (source)
- She was holding a sheaf of papers and wore that stunned, recently-depleted-of-thousands look on her tired face.† (source)
- After their one night at the Holiday Inn-Barbara's funds now all but depleted-they pack, up the suitcases and catch a cab to Cedric's dorm for a brief farewell.† (source)
- Because of the peculiar status of the Fox Brothers baggage stock—whose numbers have been depleting all afternoon—I've seen for myself that they were fed and watered.† (source)
- So many of the troops who had given up and gone home had, against orders, carried off muskets that were not their own that the supply of arms was depleted to the point where there were not enough for the new recruits.† (source)
- Like Minniver Cheevy, he had been born too late — exactly thirty-six hours too late for the physical well-being of his mother, a gentle, ailing woman who, after a full day and a half's agony in the rigors of childbirth, was depleted of all resolve to pursue further the argument over the new child's name.† (source)
- It made Tyrion more than a little uneasy to detach so great a part of their already inadequate fleet, depleted as it was by the loss of all those ships that had sailed with Lord Stannis to Dragonstone and never returned, but Cersei would hear of nothing less.† (source)
- After thanking him, I headed out into the hall wiping my nose on my arm, depleted but exponentially happier.† (source)
- Stage one is when there's a mild depletion of cells.† (source)
- The purchase of provisions fell almost to nothing throughout the district in the ensuing weeks; but as Bilbo's catering had depleted the stocks of most stores, cellars and warehouses for miles around, that did not matter much.† (source)
- We were sorely depleted already in trades of all kinds.† (source)
- He rose and turned out the light, then headed for his car, feeling strangely depleted.† (source)
- And by now he realized the depleted Japanese navy would not sail to his rescue.† (source)
- But Mortenson, stung by the quick depletion of his stack of rupees every time he paid another deposit, insisted on economizing.† (source)
- Hannah's claims are acceptable in her neighborhood because they are nonfinancial and nonthreatening; she does not disturb or deplete family resources.† (source)
- We've had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, and now it's just about depleted.† (source)
- Depleting my funds.† (source)
- We're coated in flowers but our sacks are nearly depleted.† (source)
- Defense regiments had depleted ranks of ice miners so much that selling ice on free market was profitable; LuNoH0Co steel subsidiary was hiring every able-bodied man it could find, and Wolfgang Korsakov was ready with paper money, "National Dollars," printed to resemble Hong Kong dollar and in theory pegged to it.† (source)
- By December, in large families especially, the supplies would be depleted.† (source)
- After living together for nearly a year, the money that had taken me years to save was nearly depleted.† (source)
- We were depleted—emotionally, and by the numbers of those we'd lost—but grateful to be alive.† (source)
- It was very often used in armor-piercing ammunition, particularly when the material of choice, depleted uranium, wasn't available.† (source)
- They marched through the work of the store as if they wanted to deplete themselves of every last bit of energy.† (source)
- The Stonewall Brigade and the rest of Lee's men, depleted as they are, are practiced experts at warfare.† (source)
- Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted—or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect—he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye.† (source)
- Ninety-kilo bricks of depleted uranium?† (source)
- As the whaling fleets depleted their numbers, scientists conjectured that there were whales who would exhaust themselves in fruitless wandering and never connect with any mate at all.† (source)
- Mostly he reminded me of a man coming out of a long, hard drunk—worn out, depleted, collapsed.† (source)
- Coincidentally, the drastically depleted caribou herds of Keewatin * chose that year to alter their age-old migration habits, and most of them bypassed southern central Keewatin entirely.† (source)
- Certainly it would not make me rich, though I suspect I might in some small way augment an income badly depleted by the needs of your poor aunts down in N.C. But I am balked by the aforementioned serious qualms and reservations.† (source)
- Even had they been able to acquire a new tube, the radio could not have operated long, for the automobile batteries were depleted and it was in May that gasoline vanished entirely.† (source)
- You have been willfully depleting the stock of which I am in charge.† (source)
- Virgie worked for the very people that were out depleting the woods, Mr. Nesbitt's company.† (source)
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Louie was disturbed to see how the years of worry had depleted his brother.
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depleted = drained (of energy)
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A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman.
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depleting = reducing
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The suffering faces of depleted men and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help—they were beyond that—but for an explanation.
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depleted = used up
- Then I ventured into the twisted terrain of the right half, guiding Pac-Man through the pixelated on-screen refuse of the game's depleted memory. (source)
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Eventually, Max's knees began to buckle, his cheekbones silently moaned, and the Führer's delighted face still chipped away, chipped away, until depleted, beaten, and broken, the Jew flopped to the floor.
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depleted = with energy used up
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This was a signal that his three minutes as Ultraman had nearly elapsed and that his power was almost depleted.
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depleted = been used up
- The shift in his demeanor and the way my entire first name is flowing from his mouth is causing the oxygen to deplete from the room.† (source)
- You can quickly deplete your magic.† (source)
- By forcing Murtagh to expend even more of his strength to keep Thorn and himself from being cooked alive, as well as whatever energy he was using to avoid being squished, she hoped to deplete his reserves enough that Eragon and the two-legs-pointed-ears might have a chance of defeating him.† (source)
- Aren, however, we may have need of at any moment; you should not deplete it merely to ease my discomfort.† (source)
- Eragon or Arya could have attempted to circumvent or deplete the spellcasters' wards with spells of their own, but using magic against another magician was always a perilous proposition unless the magician's mind was under your control.† (source)
- All we're really doing is depleting our small cache of food and waiting for...what?† (source)
- He felt totally depleted from his race out of the Necropolis.† (source)
- It depleted most of the N2 tank but was finally able to bring up the pressure.† (source)
- That could explain the depleted white count.† (source)
- No unusual energy emissions or depletions.† (source)
- And Zar'roc and the belt are almost depleted.† (source)
- Aching and depleted, Langdon broke into a loping run.† (source)
- The blessing of Mars faded, leaving him depleted.† (source)
- When the energy in the ring was almost depleted, he whispered, "Ganga raehta."† (source)
- His meager strength depleted, he curled into an even tighter ball, panting and whimpering.† (source)
- "But you must have known your resources were depleted," Luke said, not unkindly, "didn't you?"† (source)
- Such a spell has depleted her energy, Isis said.† (source)
- Can't be any worse than depleted uranium in your morning coffee.† (source)
- The batteries in our one remaining radio were nearly depleted.† (source)
- And how further depleted might he appear with his mother now gone?† (source)
- Beered-up and depleted, I too fell asleep, tightly hanging on to her body as to a security blanket.† (source)
- Let's blame the Cold War and the hostage situation in Iran and the depletion of the ozone layer on Kemp.† (source)
- Mrs. Ramage, too, had her moments when she could not help wondering what life might have been like if Geoffrey and the doctor had arrived an hour later on that dark and stormy night two months ago, or if the experimental blood transfusion in which her young master had so bravely poured his own life's blood into Misery's depleted veins had not worked.† (source)
- This morning I purposely overstuffed my game bag with food, knowing my mother would see the depleted pantry and assume I was making my rounds to the hungry.† (source)
- If we do manage to reach him, our troops will be battered and depleted, making it all the easier for him to destroy us.† (source)
- Eragon ate while he rode, trying to replace his depleted energy before he leaned forward against Snowfire and closed his eyes.† (source)
- If she thought it was both unfair and unsafe to field a depleted team, she did not expect to be questioned by people who worked behind desks and who had rarely, if ever, seen her teams play.† (source)
- With the outcome all but decided, in those last months of the war it might have seemed that we would have felt a sense of optimism, but by spring of 1945, we were completely exhausted, totally depleted of any reserve of energy; our spirits were shattered, our bodies barely alive.† (source)
- But the depleted army of the Taliban was determined that I should not get it, and ever)' time I tried to advance even a few yards, get even a few feet higher, they drove me back.† (source)
- It was as if she had put a spell on him; it was as if typing the lies, the wrong words, had depleted him of all ability to act.† (source)
- The big Catling gun on the deck of the Enterprise opens up again and fires another meteorite of depleted uranium slugs into the side of an unoccupied barge about twenty feet from Hiro.† (source)
- The sonobuoy inventory was already being depleted alarmingly, and soon they would have to cut back on expenditures.† (source)
- As he waves the gun back and forth, hosing the target down with a hypersonic shower of depleted uranium, Bruce Lee's entire ship seems to sparkle and glitter, as though Tinkerbell was flying back and forth from stem to stern, sprinkling nuclear fairy dust over it.† (source)
- Also, I'll have the two functional EVA suits in there with me and anything that might be needed for emergency repairs: tool kits, spare parts, my nearly depleted supply of sealant, the other rover's main computer (just in case!)† (source)
- Depleted uranium.† (source)
- For tonight's mission, Richardson's flight had a full load of depleted uranium slugs for their Avenger cannons and a pair of Rockeye cluster bomb cannisters, additional antitank weapons.† (source)
- He will watch as the frivolity of my mood directs the depletion of his funds in whatever unnecessary and trivial manner I can and do imagine.† (source)
- It didn't work right on the test subjects over the last two months, but they went ahead with the plan anyway, saying what's left of the planet's resources is being depleted.† (source)
- "Normally, yes," Magnus said crossly, "but last night, after everything I did, my magic was—depleted."† (source)
- They came funneling out of the lobby and moved down the aisles and found their seats, the anticipation of early evening largely depleted by now, and they settled in quickly, all business, and the second half of the film began.† (source)
- And yet it seemed everything fell away whenever Captain Ono addressed me, all my carefully built-up perception of things, and in the sorry depletion I could feel the searing, rising surges of what must be pure enmity.† (source)
- He chaperoned groups of riders on mornings of road work, but by the end of the run discipline always seemed to break down and he'd end up jogging them into a gin joint to refill their depleted systems with a tall one.† (source)
- Though the quenchless quality of his literary thirst had soon depleted the shelves of the prison library, the prison chaplain and others sympathetic to Andrews kept him supplied with parcels from the Kansas City public library.† (source)
- Those are going to be rapidly depleted.† (source)
- Some dozen had gathered to see to Aphra's punishment—a large enough number considering our depleted state.† (source)
- So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee's men from insufficient and unsound food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war would often cause blood poison, gangrene, and death," one Confederate general will later write.† (source)
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- It is as if she has "gotten religion," as they say, found some secret store of forgiveness in herself, even as I have long been depleting it.† (source)
- Although he possessed erves , and by the reserves of energy, he'd been profligate with those res time he got to Camp Four they were nearly depleted.† (source)
- The "rounds" were 150mm chunks of steel and depleted uranium with the breather drive buried in the middle.† (source)
- And many of the components on the list to make ordnance utilizing depleted uranium were ones that the government watched very carefully.† (source)
- The amount of force contained within each of the Lethrblaka's terrible blows had already depleted the wards against physical danger that Eragon had placed around Saphira.† (source)
- Oblivious to the tragedy unfolding outside in the storm, I drifted in and out of consciousness, delirious from exhaustion, dehydration, and the cumulative effects of oxygen depletion.† (source)
- The Outside piece was as accurate as I could make it under the circumstances, but my deadline had been unforgiving, the sequence of events had been frustratingly complex, and the memories of the survivors had been badly distorted by exhaustion, oxygen depletion, and shock.† (source)
- When he had nearly depleted his reserves and was faint from the effort, Saphira and the elves poured the energy from their bodies into his, maintaining the spell for him.† (source)
- He had depleted his reserve of energy during the past few battles, and Eragon wanted to replenish it before setting out on a long and potentially hazardous journey.† (source)
- The community's pool of antiseptics, depleted by months of use and utterly irreplaceable, had sunk so low that Bob Baxter used it only on major wounds.† (source)
- Several miles of forest had once been cleared along the railway line on both sides of the junction, and there, among the old tree stumps overgrown with wild strawberries, the piles of timber depleted by pilfering, and the tumble-down mud huts of the seasonal laborers who had cut the trees, the deserters set up their camp.† (source)
- Especially if a man has allowed himself to become depleted of all such distracting emotions, the matter of questioning or mistrusting an order becomes academic; he immediately obeys: "When in the summer of 1941 the Reichsfuhrer SS [Himmler) himself gave me the order to prepare installations at Auschwitz where mass exterminations could take place, and personally carry out these exterminations, I did not have the slightest idea of their scale or consequences.† (source)
- [He holds the bottle to the light to observe its depletion,] Have a shot† (source)
- He was weary, and frightened by his depletion.† (source)
- Fatigue and powerful nervous depletion conquered him.† (source)
- At Dixieland, there was an air of exhaustion, of nervous depletion.† (source)
- He would have had a chance to win the city half-mile if he hadn't hurt his wind with cigars and—he bragged about it—what the health manuals called self-abuse and depletion of manhood.† (source)
- The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan—a tired, depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg— and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.† (source)
- It was as if Atlanta society, scattered and wrecked by war, depleted by death, bewildered by change, had found in her an unyielding nucleus about which it could re-form.† (source)
- In a warm steaming rain the next day, the defeated army poured though Atlanta by thousands, exhausted by hunger and weariness, depleted by seventy-six days of battle and retreat, their horses starved scarecrows, their cannon and caissons harnessed with odds and ends of rope and strips of rawhide.† (source)
- She moved back and forth in ceaseless fret between Eliza's house and Hugh Barton's, in constant rhythms of wild energy and depletion, anger, hysteria, weariness and indifference.† (source)
- Margaret Leonard watched his health jealously, almost morbidly, warning him constantly of the terrible consequences that followed physical depletion, the years required to build back what had once been thrown carelessly away.† (source)
- He sought these phantoms fruitlessly for weeks, until he discovered that he might find them only on Sunday morning, tossed like heavy sacks across one another, in the fetid dark of a tenement room, a half-dozen young men and women, in a snoring exhaustion of whisky-stupor and sexual depletion.† (source)
- This face was the constant field of conflict, nearly always calm, but always reflecting the incessant struggle and victory of the enormous energy that inhabited her, over the thousand jangling devils of depletion and weariness that tried to pull her apart.† (source)
- She was one of several handsome and bacchic daughters of a depleted South Carolinian of good family; she had married at sixteen a red heavy man who came and went from her incomparable table, eating rapidly and heartily, muttering, when pressed, a few shy-sullen words, and departing to the closed leather-and-horse smell of his little office in the livery-stable he owned.† (source)
- The luncheon table showed a depleted circle.† (source)
- how cruelly the dice, beer-pots, and Venus have depleted thee!† (source)
- No patient will like it—certainly not Peacock's, who have been used to depletion.† (source)
- The electric cells you use to generate this marvelous force must be depleted very quickly.† (source)
- Babbitt was interested in a preparation which "takes the place of exercise for sedentary men by building up depleted nerve tissue, nourishing the brain and the digestive system."† (source)
- By the time the depleted regiment had again reached the first open space they were receiving a fast and merciless fire.† (source)
- And thus the land-owners, despite their marvellous efforts, are really a transient class, continually being depleted by those who fall back into the class of renters or metayers, and augmented by newcomers from the masses.† (source)
- And after him again—but, oh—that was so hard; so much closer to Clyde—so depleting to his strength to think of bearing this deadly life here without—Miller Nicholson—no less.† (source)
- The depleted band drew a long breath of relief and gathered itself into a bunch to complete its trip.† (source)
- And, as though to add to the daily misery which this prosperous canal inflicted on the unfortunate inn-keeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhone from which it had its source and the post-road it had depleted, not a hundred steps from the inn, of which we have given a brief but faithful description.† (source)
- But this air must be swiftly depleted.† (source)
- That's perfect, Captain Nemo, but the air you carry must be quickly depleted; and once it contains no more than 15% oxygen, it becomes unfit for breathing.† (source)
- The mercury is never depleted.† (source)
- This had depleted the treasury, but never mind, she could manage the reception herself right here at Marydell Road.† (source)
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