Sentence examples for drain lost from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

"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.

But as tearful freedom flights to Seoul gradually gave way to routine shopping and family excursions on Asiana Airlines, much of the anger has drained from this lost colony.

Large proportions of wetlands in Iowa, Minnesota, and North Dakota have been drained or otherwise lost in the past 200 years [1].

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

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