Sentence examples for rain drains from inspiring English sources

The rain drains through it almost as it falls, and it can handle frosts down to -20C.

Hollow dwellers insist that the lucrative blasting and grinding away of the mountaintop for its coal in the last four years have stripped their hillsides of vegetation, obliterated streams and drainage patterns and turned the hollow into an overflowing funnel every time rain drains off the mining plateau being created above their houses.

These are the quivers rain drains.

Their ploughing technique is designed to avoid rain draining away.

The open roofs of Spanish-influenced architecture let in rain drained away by a floor grate.

"Should a motorist fail to observe a granny wobbling to avoid a pothole or a rain drain, then he is guilty of failing to anticipate that this was somebody on her maiden voyage into the abyss.

This is equivalent to 56 mm of rain drained in one hour.

After filtering through the mud, the rain runoff drains into a tank underneath the seating structure, then is pumped through a tube to the dressing room and flushed into the sewer system.

Such was the ferocity of the rain that drains began to overflow almost immediately, leaving riders to plough through a series of mini floods, particularly at the bottom of inclines.

Too-visible joints let down its aspiration to seamlessness, and the building becomes less convincing when it has to deal with the fact of rain, with drains, stains and stray leaves.

Rain is drained off the roof through the columns, eliminating the need for any visible ductwork.