Sentence examples for as drain from inspiring English sources
Grohl and Novoselic took the stage as "Drain You" played.
Gargoyles were used as drain spouts to propel rain from buildings, thus preventing damage to the mortar.
The state's counter-insurgency strategy, known as "drain the sea to kill the fish," culminated in what the commission deemed acts of genocide.
But he finds the dust — a toxic mixture of chemicals and concrete that scientists say can be as caustic as drain cleaner — when he has to work in spaces above ceiling tiles.
Data such as drain discharge, soil salinity, water table depth, and soil properties were collected.
A pair of metallic pads (Ti/Au) serves as drain and source contacts.
By the end of the afternoon, Watney looked as drained as Mickelson.
Change of use has emptied the landscape itself: Ian and Sal's reality is as drained as the text that contains it.
Ms. Washington said she found the hot weather as draining as anyone else, but each morning she wakes up hoping for a scorcher.
Normally once my alarm goes off I'm up, but that morning I felt as drained as I did the time I got tropical flu in Vietnam.
Entertainment Weekly commented about the band's Woodstock '94 performance: "Reznor unstrings rock to its horrifying, melodramatic core--an experience as draining as it is exhilarating".
