Sentence examples for seem to drain from inspiring English sources

But he doesn't want to get caught up in the parts of the New York world that seem to drain rather than produce energy.

It would seem to drain the story of its complexity to suggest that people vanish as they grow, but Deborah Schupack's strange, unsettling, lyrical novel defies simple paraphrase.

Sometimes there are suggestions of topographical maps, as in "Basin," where scattered blues seem to drain out of a field of golds and reds toward a blue, riverlike line.

I think, too, of the way her feet can slow, and the way energy can seem to drain out of her in the course of a single game, or how it can be absent from the start.

But as I found on visits to almost two dozen wineries in the Rhine and Mosel valleys, they are more often not simply dry, but so parching that they seem to drain the mouth of every last bit of moisture.

It may seem to drain all passion from life, and it requires that we dampen the attachment we have not only to our selves but also to special others.

Either way, the hubbub seemed to drain Mrs. Clinton.

Todd's face seems to drain of colour at the mention of it.

When he starts talking into a digital recorder, the life of the battery seems to drain faster.

It's only when you enter the new galleries that the life seems to drain out of the architecture.

Joy was unconfined, but that episode seemed to drain Walton of all his reserves and his confidence seeped away.