How to Use deplete in a Sentence

deplete

verb
  • We completely depleted our life savings when we bought our new house.
  • Activities such as logging and mining deplete our natural resources.
  • That won't deplete us of revenue to fix our roads.
    — NBC news, 3 May 2026
  • Check and replace if the bait is depleted.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Check and replace if the bait is depleted.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
  • But while drugs increase dopamine in the moment, long-term drug use depletes it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Over time, frames become weak, and soils are depleted.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The leaves are hand-picked, and only a little at a time as to not deplete the plant.
    — Erin Booke, Dallas News, 12 June 2020
  • But 500 years to deplete all of the world’s marble is not very long.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The roster from the big leagues to the minor leagues was depleted.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Experts say your level of self-control tends to deplete over the course of a day.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Rosehip is our weapon against those free radicals that deplete and dull the skin.
    — Laurie Brookins, Robb Report, 3 July 2021
  • At that stage of the race, your body is depleted and flavors taste much more intense.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Rhythm as the way in which a spectator goes over the image, reads it, depletes it.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Without much soil to hold moisture, the plant will quickly deplete what there is.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Jan. 2025
  • There’s also risk involved in depleting the team’s war chest of draft picks.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The early colonists didn’t deplete this plentiful stock much, if at all.
    — Benjamin Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • To be in as good shape next year, the region can’t afford to deplete it too much this winter.
    — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Design your business to fuel you, not deplete you.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The initial round of funding for the program was depleted in just two weeks.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al, 24 Apr. 2020
  • But premature scaling is one of the fastest ways to burn out your team and deplete your runway.
    — Logan Weaver, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But then the water source is being depleted, and stretching it is not cheap.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
  • That early onslaught of demand will deplete the supply of homes for sale.
    — From Staff and Wire Reports, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • That early onslaught of demand will deplete the supply of homes for sale.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • If your plant is several years old, the potting soil might be depleted.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • At that point, the program’s reserves would be depleted.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Large blue-green algae blooms can deplete the oxygen levels present in the water.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2025
  • But as the hunt wore on, as its energy was depleted, the elk would have needed to stop and eat.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Their hearts are in the right place, even if their bank accounts are being quickly depleted.
    — Parents, 18 June 2026
  • The baseball field was destroyed and some of the buildings were depleted.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025

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