Thoroughly drain the raisins and set them aside.
Carefully and thoroughly drain the plums, reserving the syrup.
Moments after the debate, Mr. Romney pronounced himself "thoroughly drained" by the forced display of humanity.
In the postgame locker room, thoroughly drained by the Florida heat, he had to hydrate intravenously.
But right now, there is one tool that is thoroughly drained and needs to be recharged: my brain.
The lusty lifeblood that made these musicals pulse was so thoroughly drained that only their shells, freshly painted and polished, remained.
Ours were authentic natives, dipped in evaporated milk, dredged in finely ground corn meal, fried twice in a mixture of "animal fat" (lard?) and vegetable oil, and thoroughly drained.
Cink, who looked thoroughly drained afterward, had breezed into the final by obliterating the United States Open champion Ángel Cabrera, 4 and 3, in the quarterfinals, and the British Open champion Padraig Harrington, 4 and 3, in the second round.
"Quartett" (whose German spelling has been preserved in this production) is drolly erotic, devoid of poetic justice and (like the novel) so thoroughly drained of sentimentality that its very absence of warmth and tenderness becomes a source of titillation.
