bottomless pit
something that drains all one's energy or resources.
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How to use bottomless pit in a sentence
Meanwhile, billions of dollars of foreign aid are pumped into a bottomless pit that most ordinary Palestinians never see.
Kerry's Gas Field Plan Won't Make Palestine a Better Place | Matthew Kalman | May 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption—it's not a bottomless pit.
It was said to be a bottomless pit; if so, he should be all right, because he could get out at the other end!
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice DaviesThey were devoted adherents of the house of Orsi, and could be trusted to follow the head of the family to the bottomless pit.
The Making of a Saint | William Somerset MaughamThe beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit, mentioned chap.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius | Jean Lvesque de Burigny
Such an one is indeed floundering in the bottomless pit, with only the shadows of men ever flitting about him.
How to Observe | Harriet MartineauStill those dreadful shrieks, mingled now with curses hot from the bottomless pit, came up through the window.
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