Sentence examples for had been flushing from inspiring English sources

"It scared out guys to death – they were told by a neighbour that someone had been flushing piranhas down the toilet.

He said he had even brought in a plumber to see if marijuana had been flushed down the toilet.

There were reports of gang leaders who escaped when the jail collapsed resurfacing in shanty towns from which they had been flushed out by UN troops in 2006.

Shopwindows usually bright were dark, and it occurred to him that, of course, people had been flushed onto the sidewalk by the outage.

Underwater, Robert waited a second, until he felt that the boat had been flushed clear of the rocks and the arch.

"It seemed to us that Gregg had indulged the assumption that race had been flushed out of the system," said John C. Boger, who argued the McCleskey case for the defendant and who is now dean of the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Mr. Aziz said it was odd that American soldiers would go to such a volatile area where Taliban militants were known to be prevalent even though the Pakistani security forces insisted that they had been flushed out.

But he also had to deal with the fallout of a report in Newsweek asserting that a military inquiry was expected to find that a Koran had been flushed down a toilet at the detention center.

A spokeswoman for the State Department of Environmental Protection said that an investigation after the beaches were closed on Friday had found syringes among plastic waste on the beaches, but that all the waste had been flushed through sewer systems after recent heavy rains.

Havner added that he believed all of this "non-economic use" had been flushed out by the recession — that the dips in occupancy industrywide could be attributed to these customers' wising up and leaving.

Elaine Makatura, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Environmental Protection, said that an investigation found syringes used for home insulin injections among plastic waste on the beaches, but that all the waste had been flushed through sewer systems after recent heavy rains.