Sentence examples for * the drains of from inspiring English sources

Houser had allegedly poured cement down all the drains of the wreaking house, the Bones said.

Late last century, in the drains of the Roman amphitheatre in London, bits of gold jewellery were found.

While on book tours, he runs from drugstore to drugstore, buying shampoos and detergents, which he then pours down the drains of hotel bathrooms.

With screens on the drains of the ponds and high leveelike walls around them, he said, "We're extremely careful, and we're being punished for that".

Hiorns, a modern alchemist whose works have included causing fire to rise out of the drains of Tate Britain, agreed to give Seizure to the Arts Council Collection, and the Art Fund and the Jerwood Foundation stepped up to help find the £40,000 it would cost to move.

The environmental hazards posed by these microbeads are well documented, as they make their way through the drains of our showers and sinks and are deposited in waterways from New York to the Arctic.

Plug the drain of the sink.

These would pump water from the internal drains of the fen to Vernatt's Drain, and the lower internal water levels would allow the existing wind-powered drainage mills to work efficiently.

Rain cascades from rooftops and clogs the basement drains of the Multnomah County morgue.

The security, armaments and prison complexes -- the major drains of our national wealth -- are committed to a perpetual battle with The Enemy, with bogeymen and terrorists, who exist in objective independence from our own activities.

The draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.