Sentence examples for drained like from inspiring English sources

The mammoth lake held back by the dam, Glacial Lake Missoula, was drained like a giant bathtub, in perhaps as little as 48 hours.

But they need Adeline, Andy's daughter, to use her fairy powers to get onto the fairy plane where Sookie is being drained, like as we speak.

By the time I sat down to work in the afternoon, I wasn't mentally drained, like I once would have been.

Take, for example, Mr. Rushmore's request for square bathroom drains like those he remembered from the Four Seasons Hôtel George V in Paris.

Instead his relentlessness has become strangely draining, like watching a man condemned to death by left-arm spin nobly seeing out his sentence.

"Y'all trying to tell me chess is draining like that?" Mr. Johnson asked Mr. Ashley and a couple of protégés watching the game.

Instead, it drains like a bathtub.

I was waiting for my eyes to drain like a raging waterfall, but instead, they closed.

She looked pale and drained — not like somebody who'd been crying but like somebody who might've been on a roadside when two speeding cars or two train engines or two jet airplanes collided in front of her.

Today's team, at Old Trafford, play on an artificially drained surface like a lawn, with lightweight balls that soar.

Now Mr. Paterson is the governor, and with each passing minute, the power of the office seems to have all but drained away, like water seeping from cupped hands.