Sentence examples for means draining from inspiring English sources

Extracting coal-bed methane means draining groundwater that is often charged with toxic salts.

For most students, an internship still means draining someone's bank account (the students' or the parents') in exchange for a résumé line.

What Trump actually means by "draining the swamp" of corruption is not that clear.

The full-court press would be an easy way for well-conditioned players and teams to fully exploit their exhausted opponents, or at the very least, a means of draining the shot clock and disrupting the half-court timing of offenses.

For Lerma and other photojournalists in metro Manila, that means tough, draining nights rushing to document the deaths.

The Bush administration has been keen to keep the democratic process here on track, as a means to drain anger from the insurgency and also to help set the conditions for an American troop draw-down.

Imaging with ultrasound can confirm the diagnosis, provide a means to drain the collection to tailor antibiotic therapy and can be safely used for regular follow-up of abscess.

Many singles have worked hard to build their nest eggs and don't want a partner without means to drain their bank accounts with health or monetary needs.

Coupled with his administration's willingness to do the bidding of Republican mega-donors on everything from health care to foreign policy, it is hard to see how this is anyone's idea of what it means to "drain the swamp".

In mid-18th century, the government conceived the idea of a canal as a means of draining the land & starting inland waterways.

When the ice melts, the salty water flows into gutters meant to drain rainwater.