How To Use Soul-destroying In A Sentence
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The last 15 minutes are particularly soul-destroying.
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There is barely anything more soul-destroying than a no-frills flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any company that advertises itself as ‘fun’ is simply making a desperate and futile attempt to distract attention away from the soul-destroying mundanity that is the reality of its day-to-day life.
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You see, I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't so mind-numbing and soul-destroying.
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As loveless marriages go, it is threatening to become the most soul-destroying variety.
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This last 9 months in the wilderness of soul-destroying job applications and mind-numbing temp jobs had worn me down.
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During her remarkable, epic voyage, Richards, who started sailing as as child in Helensburgh, had to overcome hurricanes, icebergs and soul-destroying solitude.
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It must be soul-destroying but that's their conditioning.
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We were winning every week but so were they and, in the end, it became soul-destroying because we just could not close the gap.
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These people were the ones who were always picked last for football teams, and who find working as a team a soul-destroying activity.
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Chronic back pain can be soul-destroying.
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If you are in the market on your own, then it can be very soul-destroying.
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I've had three years earning hardly any money, and long lie-ins are OK for a while but then they get pretty soul-destroying.
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One of the more soul-destroying was a sort of the treadmill, which involved the prisoner endlessly having to turn a crank.
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How soul-destroying an experience was it?
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But for reviewers, having to sift through mountains of published works attempting to find something worthy of praise can also be a soul-destroying task.
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These days, fashion shows have become really boring and soul-destroying to watch.
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Her Justine is a bored shopgirl inhabiting a soul-destroying existence in deepest Texas.
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He and Buster have already had to travel alone for hours, a soul-destroying experience for man and horse.
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soul-destroying labor
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Chronic back pain can be soul-destroying.
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I began a long line of soul-destroying jobs.
The Sun
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But instead of the life of soul-destroying mediocrity that he expected, Jack realises that he rather likes the role of husband to the unfeasibly nice Kate and father to their darling children.
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One of the more soul-destroying was a sort of the treadmill, which involved the prisoner endlessly having to turn a crank.
Times, Sunday Times
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Watching a man make noises into a mic (aka beatbox) for an hour is possibly one of the most soul-destroying and mind-numbingly things you could ever do.
Virtual Festivals
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It may seem a soul-destroying task to set about documenting, in words and pictures, the creatures that have perished in the past 500 years, but this project is one of the most exciting I have ever been involved in.
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In this short, delicate song, a universal sense of the brute, soul-destroying sameness of life as it unfolds is crystallized into a simple acoustic melody, encouraging us to hurry up and wait for nothing to change.
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To become an adult in 1945 meant to be brought up during the Depression, experiencing at first or second-hand soul-destroying unemployment and often miserable poverty.
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Since the job of sorting through the slush pile is generally reckoned to be soul-destroying, it is almost invariably given to the newest and most junior member of staff: the one who is in no position to refuse.
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From this spring, passengers can check in online, and a bigger on-board baggage allowance will cut down the sometimes soul-destroying experience of watching suitcases go round the baggage carousels.
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You see, I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't so mind-numbing and soul-destroying.
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The target that you are powerless to change your chances of hitting is soul-destroying in a job where soul is what you need more than anything else.
Times, Sunday Times
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An unhappy office can be more than just soul-destroying, it can seriously damage people's lives.
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There can't be a more soul-destroying experience than having your house flooded.
The Sun
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I've had three years earning hardly any money, and long lie-ins are OK for a while but then they get pretty soul-destroying.
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Katerina's soul-destroying loneliness and violent sexual passion is expressed in music of soaring lyricism.
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But the factory, and the soul-destroying drudgery of assembly line work, was the fate of most.
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It must be soul-destroying to move somewhere, then find building going on all around you.
Times, Sunday Times
