Sentence examples for drain lose from inspiring English sources

Flipping both will actually sometimes cause the player to "drain" (lose the ball) when they didn't need to.

We had a 100,000-piece mailing that went down the drain, lost in the anthrax scare.

Over the past few decades, Canada has been battling the infamous "brain drain," losing its best scientific minds to other countries.

The difference is that most children are not asked to perform on the level that I performed and, of those who were publicly exhibited, I was lucky not to be the stereotypical model of the exploited child forced to perform day after day until he is drained, loses all contact with his peers and ends up a psychological wreck aged 20.

All these morphological riffs loosen up the obtuse, adamant solidity of the sculptures and suggest the wealth of associations that the sink, as a form, can carry: of washing (clothes, houses, babies, bodies living and dead), of baptism, of slaking thirst, of warming, cooling, healing, of dirt rinsed down the drain, and of precious things -- fortunes, lives -- gone down the drain and lost.

Google has also suffered a documented brain drain, notably losing Sheryl Sandberg, who is now chief operating officer at Facebook.

He had a nice evening with his children, but now he feels drained and lost.

"That could be tomorrow morning, and that could be three, four years from now," said Seles, visibly drained after losing to Venus Williams, 6-4, 6-3.

He was so drained he lost track of everything around him -- even his wife at the time, Bonnie Owens, a singer with his band.

That could mean a brain drain for companies losing experienced employees, and another drain on both Social Security and Medicare. .

They do not want to drain their treasury and lose their children to protect West Bank settlements.