Sentence examples for drain toward from inspiring English sources

The waters on their slopes drain toward the basin's centre, which was once covered by a series of lakes.

The shorter valleys on the eastern flank of the Red Sea Hills drain toward the Red Sea; they, too, are normally dry.

To the east of the range, the Chambal River the only large and perennial stream in the state and other waterways generally drain toward the northeast.

The denudation rates of the catchments of highlands that drain toward the escarpments are similar to those of their respective highlands.

The southern region is essentially composed of igneous rocks and is sharply incised by deep, canyonlike wadis (seasonal watercourses) that drain toward the Gulf of Suez or the Gulf of Aqaba.

The porous lines also allowed up to 200,000 gallons of rainwater a day to drain toward the Upper Occocoquan water treatment plant in nearby Chantilly, eating up capacity that officials say soon will be needed for new commercial and residential development.

They were still on standby, as the rain that Hurricane Florence had dumped upstate drained toward New Bern.

The road turned to dirt, and topped out over a pass into a stunning valley of tundra, yellow and purple wildflowers bursting from its flanks, waterfalls pouring off the rim and a stream at the floor draining toward the sea.

In the 7300 block of Rockwell on Tuesday afternoon, a man's blood drained toward the curb in front of a Buick SUV he had bought the night before, according to a stunned neighbor who had known the victim, Brian B Winters, for 10 years.

The lake subsequently drained toward north (Ori et al. 2000; Harrison and Chapman 2008, 2010; Lucchitta 2009; Metz et al. 2009; Flahaut et al. 2010; Lucchitta 2010; Sowe et al. 2011; Warner et al. 2013).

Left to its own devices, a bubble will weaken and pop as the fluid sandwiched between two thin layers of soap succumbs to gravity and drains toward the floor.