The massive search all across Iraq was an exhausting effort, even though he was' using the most sophisticated detection equipment money could buy.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness.

I allowed my mouth to hang open a little, and wavered as if I kept my feet only through an exhausting effort.

Unable to offer them any reassurances, he took a step back and began, again, the exhausting effort of regaining control of his feelings.

Swinging her feet to the floor was an exhausting effort.

The money -" The exhausting effort was too much.

Our men fell back gradually, letting the Romans win ground step by step but only with exhausting effort.

He slept six hours and had a meal, soon feeling fully restored from his exhausting efforts over the past two days.

It had been an exhausting effort; but The Shadow had won.

Following, keeping quiet, finding the trail in the dark, worrying that I might be about to step into shadows, all had been an exhausting effort.