Sentence examples for on the draining from inspiring English sources

There will be one single cup drying on the draining board instead of a dozen growing penicillin under the bed.

After that there were other sets of pictures: one concentrated on the random arrangements of washing-up piled up on the draining board at home; another was a series of interiors of charity shops - "the only kind of shop where the goods choose the shop rather than the shop choosing the goods," as he said in an interview with the curator Charlotte Cotton.

The following morning, she found the jug and its mysterious contents that I had forgotten to dispose of and had accidentally left on the draining board.

Even the way we stack the plates on the draining board or hang the washing on the line can be infused with the same creative urge.

Under the plate rack on the draining board and at the bottom of the plastic pot for the cutlery was a murky gray sludge.

No launderettes, no automatic washing machines, wash day every Monday, clothes boiled in a tub, scrubbed on the draining board....Abortion illegal, homosexual relationships illegal, suicide illegal, capital punishment legal.

You may use a weight on the drained curds to press even more moisture out.

Annie dabs small pieces of butter on the parsnips, draining water from the dish.

The dirty water on the street drains to the beach.

That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog's blanket and the tea-cosy.

When I came home unexpectedly in the mid-afternoon and found an extra knife and fork still wet and glittering on the draining-board beside your own, I knew at once.