Sentence examples for Time drain from inspiring English sources

And isn't going to the grocery store more than just a time drain?

One young woman, who had just had a baby, found the child a "cash drain" and a "time drain".

When Mr. Wozniak was designing the Apple II, he was also handling customer service for the Apple-1, a distracting time drain.

She said that by linking to articles and sharing your expertise on Twitter, you can enhance your professional reputation — though you should beware of the site's potential as a time drain.

When Ligand Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $12.15 million last month to settle shareholder lawsuits over years of false financial statements, its chairman and C.E.O., David E. Robinson, said the company did so only "to put the uncertainty, expense and management time drain of the class action and derivative litigation behind it".

This kind of inventory management represents a huge cost and time drain for hospitals.

The clock ticked down, time draining away on the Ravens' chances to get the ball back.

Things are captured and at the same time drained of life, never to shimmer or give back light again.

The atmosphere in the apartment is sullen and empty; there is a sense of time draining away.

The best-case scenario for New York would have been to run the ball one more time, draining the clock and forcing the Patriots to expend their final timeout.

So although the mole rats sit around most of the time, draining the colony of resources, they are actually building up their reserves for those brief periods when they act as dispersers.