Sentence examples for drain words from inspiring English sources

Despite a little rough business with an effigy on a cross, this awkward tableau doesn't seem all that blasphemous, particularly in view of artists like Andres Serrano, who have helped drain words like subversive of meaning.

(It is amazing how thoroughly the word "deconstruction" has been drained of meaning, and by the very people who accuse deconstruction of draining words of meaning).

I go to Quaker meetings to drain away the words in my mind".

At what point, though, does the meaning start to drain from these words, and the glow fade from the moments they refer to?

In a sense, faggot can be even more hurtful because gay people haven't co-opted it as a term of endearment the way rappers and some blacks have done with nigger, draining the word of some of its venom.

I understand that SlutWalkers want to drain the s-word of its misogynistic venom and correct the idea it conveys: that a woman who takes a variety of sexual partners or who presents herself in an alluring way is somehow morally bankrupt and asking to be hit on, assaulted or raped.

"Don't throw your money down the drain," the words would read.

She also spoke about the value of silence in a world that is getting "noisier, physically and mentally", saying that she has started to go to Quaker meetings again - as she used to when she was younger - to "drain away all the words from my mind".

I submit to you that, increasingly, this is how Clinical Standard Written English sounds to the Reddit-reading masses: orthodox, lifeless, soulless, a parade of pale impersonal zombie words drained of blood by some linguistic vampire, if you'll pardon the mixed horror-movie metaphor.

It takes clever word manipulation to drain the juice out of a sex book.

It took clever word manipulation to drain the juice out of a sex book.