Sentence examples for as drains from inspiring English sources

Council workers battled to stop the square flooding as drains were quickly filled by the downpour.

He watches little TV and doesn't do e-mail, activities he sees as drains on his work time.

Public-sector workers these days are under assault, their hard-won salaries and benefits depicted as drains on the body politic.

In the Reagan years, only "welfare queens" and the small percentage of people actually on food stamps were targeted as drains on the system – needing "government handouts" and failing to "take responsibility for their lives".

A young man's mother comes home from the hospital with a "new breast made out of stomach" and "tubes that functioned as drains, collecting the pus in detachable plastic bulbs".

She is upfront about the bewildering and terrifying feeling of waking up after the procedure with two bags attached to her internal organs, as well as drains, drips, tubes and catheters.

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".