Sentence examples for drain in one from inspiring English sources

We have tipped 38 years of British foreign policy down the drain in one night.

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

Companies risk their reputations if they justify draining water in one aquifer by promising to improve water conditions in another, says Brooke Barton, senior director of water and food programs at sustainable business consortium Ceres.

Consider this: Would the ad have featured footage of Obama on a golf course draining a hole-in-one?

This work, in which Neel depicts the dead fowl of traditional still-life painting plucked and draining in a kitchen sink, is one of several instances in which she brings an art-historical subject down to earth with a specifically feminist thud.

No plants will thrive either in a damp, poorly drained location or in one that is always dry.

It ends when Finbarr, the relatively inert and passive narrator, abruptly purges himself of his contents: In a daze I lifted my own glass and without knowing what I was doing did exactly what the brother did, drained the glass in one vast swallow.

Until now, this flow has mostly benefited richer countries and generated worries about a brain drain in poorer ones.

Did these men reflect aloud on the hubris of trying to best a god as they chugged wine from rhytons like the one Hercules is draining in the mosaic at their feet?

"The operational environment will remain a dirty, frightening, physically and emotionally draining one in which death and destruction result from environmental conditions creating humanitarian crisis as well as conflict itself," the manual states.

It is notoriously hard to drain one's bladder in Vancouver, particularly if you don't have the means to buy your local cafe's overpriced avocado toast beforehand.