Sentence examples for Soon drained from inspiring English sources

He soon drained his country's treasury and enraged Napoleon.

Many had no power, and their backup battery systems soon drained.

The settlement's early growth was hampered by malarial swamps in the area, which were soon drained.

The sight is so alarming that it sets her "blood and organs into crashing disarray until I was soon drained of all former purpose, as slender as that was".

In the opening minutes, it appeared that the alternative could be an effective one here too, with a flurry of approaches, but the momentum soon drained away and this was not his night.

However, the optimism soon drained away from the hosts as Swansea, dictating the tempo of the game, set up camp in the Villa half.

Nearly every year the Somerset Levels shimmer with shallow lakes that soon drain away.

Childless, divorced and new in Manhattan with crow's feet, not stilettos, the adrenaline soon drains.

After all, the average withdrawal from a bank or building society's cash machine is £67 - which would soon drain an ATM if it only dispensed £5 notes.

A section of the Royal Docks will soon be drained to allow major works later this year to open the tunnel from above for the first time since its construction in 1878.

About once a week, he shows up at the Fulton market for the pre-dawn rounds (a ritual that, lamentably, will soon be drained of its echt-Manhattan flavor, when the market relocates to Hunts Point, in the Bronx).