Sentence examples for milked dry from inspiring English sources
"milked dry" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used as a metaphor to describe taking advantage of something or someone to the point of exhaustion or depletion. Example: The company has been milking its employees dry, expecting them to work long hours without proper compensation or breaks.
Most of the movie's scattered chortles are generated by remarks from this scowling, death-obsessed termagant whose grouchy shtick becomes a running joke that is quickly milked dry.
One in four Flemish voters plans to support him according to polls, his reward for tapping divisively into popular sentiment that taxpayers are being milked dry to prop up the French-speaking Walloons.
More than that, it is to be funded by that old cow milked dry by Gordon Brown and still being tugged at by Balls: another miracle tax on the City of London.
My point had been that when every modern fictional detective is basically derived from Sherlock Holmes, and CSI and its ilk have milked dry the science of forensics – Holmes's USP – updating Conan Doyle to the 21st century seemed a somewhat redundant exercise.
As Bubb puts it: We've always thought that Phil Clarke was a street-fighter, and his inheritance from the once highly regarded Terry Leahy was very poor (with the core UK business milked dry to finance the foolish escapade in the US), but he was always going to find it hard to survive another profit warning.
Telcos have blotted their own copybook by treating customers like cattle to be penned in and milked dry.
And then Activision will have to find another cash cow to milk dry.
He inherited corruption that is legendary and a budget that his predecessors, Democratic and Republican, had milked nearly dry.
"We could have easily milked them dry of their energies and talents and broken them.
Nonenzymatic browning causes spoilage during the storage of dry milk, dry whole eggs, and breakfast cereals.
Myths about breastfeeding Many Haitian mothers stopped breastfeeding as a result of myths that arose after the quake, including that stress makes a mother's milk dry up.
