Sentence examples for time drain from inspiring English sources

Used carelessly, face-to-face can waste your time, drain your energy and set off emotional chain reactions that make things worse, not better.

Frequently traveling to give lectures, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, chief of cellular biology metabolism at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, values professional meetings, despite the time drain.

Perhaps worse than the time drain, another study found workers ignored 37% of emails that need responding to.

And isn't going to the grocery store more than just a time drain?

One young woman, who had just had a baby, found the child a "cash drain" and a "time drain".

When Mr. Wozniak was designing the Apple II, he was also handling customer service for the Apple-1, a distracting time drain.

The clock ticked down, time draining away on the Ravens' chances to get the ball back.

Things are captured and at the same time drained of life, never to shimmer or give back light again.

The atmosphere in the apartment is sullen and empty; there is a sense of time draining away.

The best-case scenario for New York would have been to run the ball one more time, draining the clock and forcing the Patriots to expend their final timeout.

So although the mole rats sit around most of the time, draining the colony of resources, they are actually building up their reserves for those brief periods when they act as dispersers.