Sentence examples for drain something from inspiring English sources
Putting a face onto something can be illuminating, but a face can also drain something of all its mystery and power.
Great as The Good Life was, the endless reruns have drained something from the clips dug up on the death of Richard Briers.
The ice shelf is the floating projection of the mighty Pine Island Glacier, which drains something like 10% of all the ice flowing out of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the ocean.
Covering more than 160,000 sq km (two-thirds the size of the UK), it drains something like 20% of all the ice flowing off the west of the White Continent.
Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest and fastest-moving tongues of ice on the White Continent and drains something like 10% of all the ice flowing out of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the ocean.
The PIG is one of the most intensively studied areas of Antarctica because it drains something like 10% of all the ice flowing off the west of the continent, making a significant contribution to global sea level rise.
Others note that '[c]haracteristically, they did not experience pain but felt relief as the flowing blood "drained something bad from them"' (Goldwyn, Cahill and Grunebaum, 1967: 584).
Another symptom is if the bruise is draining something other than blood, such as pus.
From time to time you've had women that you've been, you know draining or something, but you've never had a love interest.
This is honest playwriting with no platitudes or tidy resolutions to placate either the audience or the play's emotionally drained 30-something parents, Becca and Howie.
