Sentence examples for a narrow drain from inspiring English sources

Earlier this month, under the cover of night, an octopus named Inky hauled his basketball-sized body out of the tank he shared with a companion at the National Aquarium of New Zealand, heaved himself across the floor, and squeezed his gelatinous mantle into a narrow drain leading to the Pacific Ocean.

Michigan's rivers, which generally are shallow and narrow, drain the state's high interior.

The Cordillera Septentrional, the northernmost range, looms above a narrow coastal plain drained by such short rivers as the Balabonico and the Yasica.

He poured three fingers of it into a narrow juice glass and drained it in one gulp.

It soon passes the Laguna Lakes and receives Little Sycamore Canyon from the right; this creek drains a narrow side canyon which runs about 2 mile eastward.

Internally much of the wealth of our own country is being drained away by a narrow group that grows increasingly wealthy as the larger population struggles with daily life.

Usually light, a mountain breeze may become a violent, gusty wind when it is funneled through a narrow gorge into which cold air has drained from many higher valleys.

In Iowa, on Friday, I came across a broad sweep of fields undulating to the southwest not a building or a tree in sight, just a narrow corridor of grass along the swale that drains those acres.

One of the cruellest impersonations of Scouse among outsiders is to exaggerate the nasal element so that a narrow sputtle of spittle shoots across the upper palette, so it sounds like a drain being dredged by a dentist drill.

First, he risks draining reserves while there is a threat that Iran may try to shut the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow seaway through which 17% of the world's oil passes.

A narrow hotel room.