Sentence examples for almost drained from inspiring English sources

They have no ground for next season, hardly any players and a reservoir of goodwill that is almost drained dry.

He waited until the boat was almost drained to tell me the bad news: in the rush, he lost his paddle.

The images now are almost drained of color, and Mr. Costa frames his protagonist (both the actor and the character are simply called "Ventura") against harshly geometrical backgrounds that might have come out of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".

But this crowded, undisciplined documentary by Marius Markevicius is so committed to thoroughness that its most potent thread — the post-cold-war ecstasy of the Lithuanian team's 1992 Olympic trouncing of its former Soviet oppressors — is almost drained of drama.

The government says electricity rationing will end this month, but in recent days southern Brazil, which has most of the country's population and industry, has suffered its worst power cuts in years.The government introduced rationing last May, after a prolonged drought had almost drained the hydro-electric schemes that provide more than 90% of the country's power.

Maybe it's just my eyes (I've almost drained the liter of Diet Coke by now, and have been staring at my computer screen for almost 6 hours), but to me this looks like most of April's other work: a vaguely punky, black mishmosh.

I didn't expect to be as affected by the film as I was by the time it ended, feeling almost drained emotionally, but my first thought when the credits came up was that I wanted to sit back down and watch it again.

It's almost draining in its beauty.