Sentence examples for are flushed down from inspiring English sources

"Besides making previous horror films look like variations of 'Pollyanna,'Psychoho' is overlaid with a richly symbolic commentary on the modern world as a public swamp in which human feelings and passions are flushed down the drain".

When the hopes of tens of millions of people are flushed down the toilet, it can't help but impact on everyone and everything - knocking the nation's morale that could otherwise see it through the tough times.

The processing poisons great volumes of water, which sit in ever-growing toxic lagoons, or are flushed down the rivers, at potential hazard to both wildlife and human health.

But if we can't learn from people with whom we disagree, or even find deplorable, then centuries of art, history, and culture are flushed down the toilet.

According to figures published in the Journal of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, about 2.5 million tampons, 1.4 million sanitary napkins and 700,000 panty liners are flushed down the toilet in the U.K. every single day. .

Another spokesman, John Beckman, said that when campus security officials find "a very small amount of suspect drugs, they are flushed down the toilet," -- a practice the Public Safety Committee says is not legal.

They are panning for nuggets of gold that might have been flushed down from the nearby mountains.

Far too many prominent, storied clubs have coalesced around the relegation plug hole for the DFL's liking, the fear being that they could be flushed down just in time for the new TV rights negotiations to start in earnest.

Much of the $300 billion of pharmaceutical products purchased globally each year is flushed down toilets--either as human waste or because the drugs have expired.

Those that aren't being flushed down are being grabbed up by souvenir collectors.  .

The mother failed to explain how her umbilical cord or the baby's entire body didn't stop it from being flushed down a relatively small hole.  .