Sentence examples for rather draining from inspiring English sources

Thrilling, magnetic, relentlessly challenging personalities can also be rather draining.

"My energy runs out at about 9 h of continuous use of my prefrontal cortex and I am finding the 12 h days needed to deal with all my inboxes and the marathon Sunday sessions to complete my admin are rather draining" (ID 257, age 50 59, male, principal).

The colour had rather drained from Alan Pardew as he confronted this latest setback post match.

The losses to Chile and the Germans at Wembley in November 2013 rather drained the optimism generated over their qualification campaign for the World Cup, and the side arguably never regained proper conviction ahead of the tournament in Brazil.

Scorched from the surface of the earth as if they'd never been... .. Andreas's narrative is filled with – or, rather, drained by – these ellipses, and at first they seem an irritating stylistic affectation.

I guarantee both will be left uncomfortable and rather drained from the experience but if you truly look and listen and eschew the need to engage for a time, you will be more enlightened in the human condition.

Nevertheless, he finds the experience refreshing rather than draining.

So many of the protests have been invigorating rather than draining.

In a study of 127 developing countries in 2009, the prospect of migration boosted human capital, rather than draining it.

Endorheic regions are considered closed systems because, rather than draining to the sea, surface waters drain to inland termini whence they evaporate or seep away.

To keep the environmentalists at bay, BHP is switching to using desalinated water pumped from Antofagasta, rather than draining the local water tables.