Sentence examples for drained supply from inspiring English sources

IN the days since Hurricane Sandy shut off the lights and flooded restaurants across New York City, the reaction has been rapid and often heroic: kitchens drained, supply lines improvised, staffs reassembled, doors reopened and beleaguered diners fed.

A successful implementation of the $200 rebate through the holidays has drained supply at a faster rate than anticipated.

The spike in demand for diesel has drained supplies and resulted in long queues at filling stations.

With the state coffers drained, supplies have gotten so low that some patients have been forced to bring their own supplies, like stents and syringes, for treatments.

Rising dairy demand in the United States and among the European Union's new members, moreover, is draining supplies.

Comstock, born in 1844 in New Canaan, Conn., developed a antivice fervor early -- as a teenager, he secretly broke into a Connecticut saloon that was selling liquor to children and drained the supply.

The influx drained grain supplies, causing hardship to the locals.

With almost all of Britain's 12,500 filling stations drained, returning supplies to normal is a "massive logistical operation," according to the Petrol Retailers Associationn.

In a 2008 article Scientific American, Dr. Bob Lawrence noted that feeding cows and other animals corn has created "widespread environmental degradation, including drained water supplies, degraded soils, and reliance on fossil fuels for fertilizer, pesticides and farm machinery fuel".

A lack of originality in non-scripted formats is draining the supply of hit shows and undermining the peak-time schedules on which traditional broadcasters depend.

Ford officials said that dealerships were being mobbed by customers insisting on replacements for tires not covered by the recall, draining the supply of new tires and forcing people with hazardous tires to continue driving on them.