Sentence examples for try to drain from inspiring English sources

Firefighters used pumping equipment to try to drain an underground parking garage at a downtown department store close to where the flooding was heaviest.

Now that the corporate raiders had seized the three Hermitage holding companies, they resorted to a classic strategy to try to drain them of money.

In late May, more than 600 soldiers and police officers dug a 1,300-foot 1,300-foottry to drain Tangjiasluice

One evening it was my job to try to drain excess fluid from the belly of a young woman with alcoholic cirrhosis.

The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge.

"If your child develops a painful boil, especially on the buttocks, don't wait for it to go away by itself or try to drain it at home," said Dr. Romano.

I was not trying to drain the battery.

You just have millions of farmers trying to drain the same wells.

This government-sponsored revival tries to drain it of any sexuality or spontaneity.

They may as well been have trying to drain the ocean.

We are trying to drain some of the hyperpartisanship out of the system.