Sentence examples for he would drain from inspiring English sources
President Trump famously promised that, if elected president, he would "drain the swamp" — upending the culture in Washington that favors the well-connected.
The USA Today report shows how Trump, despite his claims that he would "drain the swamp" of lobbyists, has simply given wealthy people direct access to him.
By the end of the day he had a stack of 100 sheets or so, which he would drain overnight, clamp in a screw press and dry on a wall of steam-heated sheet metal the following day.
Trump won the working class despite his affront to identity politics because he told them the system was rigged, that free trade was a disaster, that he would drain the swamp and make America great again.
He is a human 'what is wrong with this picture?'" One of Trump's commonly used expressions was that he would "drain the swamp", a reference to his claim that he will rid Washington of corruption and career politicians.
But their legislative package of more than a dozen bills, overseen by Representative John Sarbanes of Maryland, looks more like a retort to Mr. Trump's popular campaign claims that he would "drain the swamp" in Washington — a difference Democrats have weaponized on the campaign trail.
The irony is that so many of Trump's supporters believed his preposterous claim that he would be the one to banish corruption from Washington, that he'd "drain the swamp" and send that crooked establishment packing.
After all, one of Trump's major messages was that he'd "drain the swamp," a promise that he hasn't even attempted to follow through on.
He'd drained his second glass of wine and his movements had become jerky, uncoördinated, like those of a partially animate scarecrow.
Bruno had realized the startling sweetness of their exchange at the last instant, like the condensed milk at the bottom of his glass, which crept between his lips only after he'd drained the black coffee above.
