Sentence examples for virtually drained from inspiring English sources
Today, virtually drained of disdain, it is used by aficionados to talk about their crowd.
Brittany and the French countryside are bathed in an idyllic golden glow, all primary colours have been virtually drained from the trenches and battlefields, while the bustling streets of Paris, most notably the re-creations of the vegetable market at Les Halles and the traffic in the Place de l'Opéra, are given the look of tinted postcards.
Wigan's ability to overcome recent adversity continued, with the Tomkins brothers, Sam and Joel, providing crucial contributions to a scrappy win over a Bradford side drained of confidence and now virtually out of the play-offs race.
Things have not improved, according to Zekolli, who says "the opposition is virtually powerless with very few media outlets, financially drained, under round-the-clock observation, and practically forced out of the parliament and institutions".
But in presenting the whole riotous panorama of the novel virtually complete and without any inspired aesthetic intervention, Mr. Stein drained the rollicking energy from the writing.
If a team can be virtually assured of going to the World Series every year, the competitive nature of the game is killed and fans' enjoyment drained out of it.
Virtually the entire area of Poland drains to the Baltic Sea, about half via the Vistula River and a third via the Oder River.
Representative David R. Obey, a Democrat from Wisconsin who heads the House Appropriations Committee, said recently that sending more troops to Afghanistan could drain the Treasury and "devour virtually any other priorities that the president or anyone in Congress had".
On the other, it could drain Labour of the vast majority of its cash, rendering it virtually unable to function as a political force.
