Sentence examples for drains than from inspiring English sources

A sunburnt, worldly tomboy, strikingly beautiful and endlessly insouciant, she was excellent company for eight-year-old boys more interested in snails and storm drains than girls.

CMv readings were better correlated with factors obtained from remote sensing and distance to drains than TDS.

The observed increase in the intensity of albic material genesis after artificial improvement was higher in the immediate vicinity of drains than was its decrease after liming applications.

From Fig. 7a, b, it can be seen that the travel times decrease with the increase of ponding depth and are relatively much smaller for particles moving to the drains from locations close to the drains than those coming from areas further away from the drains.

Sitting at the front of the group, the doctor looked even more drained than the workers.

You never saw a family further down the drain than Tony and Pat Archer.

They require full sun and are generally more persnickety about being well drained than Colchicum.

Employee theft is a bigger drain than even shoplifting, which accounts for one-third.

The S6 Edge is more susceptible to usage battery drain than most other smartphones.

The exchange had left me feeling even more emotionally drained than usual.

Paul, by contrast, is all despondent passivity -- and Cowan's portrait of him is more draining than cathartic or insightful.