Sentence examples for drainer from inspiring English sources

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drainer

noun

That which drains.

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She advised a "grooved dish drainer" for the sink, an ingenious idea at the time.

Tightening the taps, she wrung out the dishcloth and hung it across the drainer.

At the moment, I don't remember whether he dried them with a dish towel or put them in a dish drainer to "air-dry".

Objects on this countertop include a pot of alphabet soup, cast in resin and painted pale violet, and a white plastic dish drainer, which, it turns out, was carved from wood by Mr. Robinson.

Mr. Dakota restored the house room by room, starting on the top floor and working his way down, only recently completing the ground-floor kitchen, which has an Aga stove and a wood-slab dish drainer he made in his basement wood shop.

A dish drainer might suggest a prison cell.

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With Brazil still reeling from what some consider the greatest corruption scandal in history, Bolsonaro has also managed to paint himself as a clean-living swamp-drainer determined to purify the filthy world of politics.

Against this backdrop of bloodshed and sleaze, experts believe many voters see Bolsonaro as an urgently needed swamp-drainer, if not a saviour.

One of them was the Arena dish rack ("We call them 'dish drainers' in the U.K.," he said), a white and avocado-green plastic design that resembles a miniature stadium.

Your next biggest expense will be living: food and drink, entertainment, travel, course books and materials, mobile phone bills and clothes are the biggest income drainers.

The new Inflate S2 range uses a material similar to Corian to make wine racks, sink drainers, bottle openers, pasta holders and tables.

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