Sentence examples for drained thin from inspiring English sources

Since many exceptional underclassmen leave for the NBA instead of staying all four years to graduate, the argument goes, the college talent pool is drained thin, diluting the excitement of the sport.

The remaining pleural fluid is not opacified and does not communicate with the in-dwelling drain (thin arrows).

As they have shrunk transistors, chip makers have made sources and drains thinner and thinner.

On a recent morning, Hasibul Islam Reaz, 10, placed a spindly arm before a needle, his eyes widening as his blood drained through a thin tube into a syringe.

Thereby, the oil column could be either drained to a thinner cross-section causing it to break it up into smaller ganglia, which results in lower residual oil saturation, or the thinned oil column could be broken into longer-length oil ganglia that have more chance to be mobilized.

Physically, Ungava is a part of the Canadian Shield, a rocky, glacial-scoured plateau characterized by innumerable lakes and thin, poorly drained soils.

And after the tall grand green bottles were emptied of their thin liquid, and the tall thin glass stemware drained and smudged and rimmed with waxy lipstick, then came the decorative and more substantial squat decanters, colors amber, gold, maple, with their accompanying tiny sweet tulip bud glasses".

In an era when friendships have become inflated, yet balloon-thin, and drained of all substance by social networking, more and more people want to post updates about what true friends are.

In place of a field-effect transistor's channel, quantum-effect devices have an "island", insulated from both the source and drain by thin layers of material.

He was thin and looked really drained for someone who's just 29.

This sauce goes very well with browned 10-12% fat ground beef + chopped mushrooms and garlic, fat drained off, then served over angel hair or thin spaghetti.