Sentence examples for this drains from inspiring English sources

What is needed is a mental stencil of the kind you find near storm drains in Los Angeles that say: "This Drains to Ocean".

This drains already-stretched budgets of resources that could be used to provide health and education services, while encouraging more pollution and greater carbon-dioxide emissions.

This drains the life out of these naturally-moist tropical forests, dries them out, and enables deliberately lit fires to burn.

Foreign doctors emigrate to the United States to help fill these positions, but this drains their native countries of desperately needed medical care.

Yet, while Congress and the executive reinvented themselves through elections, the judiciary became encrusted with new layers of complication.In this section Not-so-swift justice Keeping to the right Uneasy bedfellows Bye bye, Birdie ReprintsAll this drains Brazil of money and morale.

This drains your emotional energy.

I can (just about) accept this drain on my finances.

"I threw up right here into this drain," he says, glancing down.

So there was the president in the White House Rose Garden pretending to enjoy turning this drain on the Gross National Product into law.

The need to provide an enabling environment, and to prevent this drain of talent, is high on government agenda.

In other sports, such as track and field and baseball, this drain of talent flows to the United States.