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'left me drained' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe the emotional and/or physical effects of something. For example: "The long day of work left me drained."
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His thought-provoking "walk" across the Chernobyl exclusion zone left me drained.
Writing this a few days later, the beatific feeling is still there – an almost spiritual high that has left me drained mentally and physically (I came down with a three-day cold in the 'open window' immediately after the race), but satisfied.
At the time, I was working a corporate job that left me drained, stressed out and exhausted.
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While this is my normal, it is, I realised as I listened to the after-show discussion, quite an odd situation to be in – and one that can sometimes leave me drained.
Saying "NO" to myself in this way was leaving me drained, exhausted, triggered, and extremely disconnected.
The very real physical needs of my little one combined with the practical daily and intense emotional needs of my older two can leave me drained and distant.
Some calls left me feeling drained.
But, for all the play's visceral power, it left me feeling drained rather than shocked into new awareness.
I was driven by the search for an activity to offset all my sedentary thinking, which left me feeling drained at the end of the day.
And as with any great calling, it was initially very challenging, which left me feeling drained, unappreciated and ready to quit.
The Daily Mail gave it just one star, accusing it of gratuitous violence, while the Guardian's theatre critic, Michael Billington, said: "For all the play's visceral power, it left me feeling drained rather than shocked into new awareness".
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