Sentence examples for steady drain from inspiring English sources

That steady drain might well sink your retirement.

There is a steady drain of older experienced teachers who can't keep up with the workload.

Unable to keep up with American salaries, both teams have suffered a steady drain of top players to teams in the United State.

The prices for corn and hogs are severely depressed, and a steady drain of young people has left the area with one of the state's grayest populations.

Instead, it has seen a slow-motion leak of confidence and a steady drain on credibility that has extracted a large and growing toll on stock and bond prices and on the livelihoods of its citizens.

By this time the steady drain of men and money was telling so severely upon the confederacy that some of the most loyal allies protested their inability to render further help.

He watched them stretch their peering bird heads over the Hussein-Ishmael gutter; he watched them watch the slow and steady draining of blood from the dead things - chickens, cows, sheep - hanging on their hooks like coats around the shop.

I doubt if one person in a hundred could tell you what Candlemas is these days; indeed, with the steady draining away of Christian tradition, I doubt one person in a thousand now knows.

The result has been a steady draining of peoples' retirement accounts through inappropriate investments that only fatten Wall Street. .

Brute strength can alleviate some of the steady-drain problem.

For the last 50 years, the country has experienced a steady brain drain.