Sentence examples for like to drain from inspiring English sources

As best I can think about it, I'd like to drain those stories of any idea that they give the person who tells them some special standing.

I'd like to drain that idea so completely that knowing about your Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil War ancestors would become a version of kitchen multiculturalism -- the slightly inane but likable idea that what your grandmother cooked is the key to your "special" identity.

Trying to scrub your identity from the internet is like trying to drain a bucket of water with an eyedropper, while a dripping faucet slowly fills it back up again.

The people who overcooked our economy, sent your jobs overseas, and gave the keys to companies like Halliburton to drain the treasury through one needless war and one badly executed war, are now asking you to turn the keys of government over to the party that represents them, the Republicans.

I discussed how our misadventure in Iraq had drained a trillion dollars from our economy, just like doctors used to drain blood from a sick patient.

Your herbs like their soil to drain fast.

Recurring otitis media, which means you have had three episodes in six months or four episodes in a year with at least one occurring in the past six months, may require a procedure like ear tubes to drain fluid from the middle ear.

I was waiting for my eyes to drain like a raging waterfall, but instead, they closed.

The President of Demos, Heather McGhee, talks about the harms of racism on white people like this: "we prefer to drain the public swimming pool of economic opportunity rather than let people of color swim, too".

If they start to convulse, get them to lie on their side to keep their throat clear and allow any allow secretions like saliva or vomit to drain.

"It's a bit like the O.E.C.D. was asked to drain a swamp and instead it handed out straws," he said.