Sentence examples for had been drained from inspiring English sources

The swamp had been drained, the trees chopped down.

Once the room had been drained, it smelled like a wet sweater.

The pool had been drained to clean for the next day's visiting dignitaries, we were told.

The cyst had been drained before but returned, the Knicks said in a statement.

It's as if some essential substance had been drained from the objects, leaving only ghostly shells.

Blank-faced, she looked as though she had been drained of all sensation.

More than $50 million had been drained from credit cards and bank accounts.

The Soviets of Workers' and Peasants Deputiess had been drained of all power, which had flowed to the centre.

He's Don Draper, if Draper were an international spy and had been drained of every ounce of gravitas.

The canals nearby had been drained for maintenance work, so there was no water easily available when the firemen arrived.

For New Yorkers confined to their corner curry joints, all color but tikka-masala orange had been drained away.