Sentence examples for would have drained from inspiring English sources

"If this dam was in the United States, we would have drained the lake behind it," Lt. Gen MacFarland added.

The drop in sea level would have drained the large epicontinental seas and reduced the available habitat for organisms that favoured those settings.

More immediately, a significant amount of the colour would have drained from the union flags in which the city, or certain sections of it, abounds.

Ms Venables said that properly maintained flood plains would have drained away the excess water "within a matter of days", and added that "we've got to manage it better than we are at the moment".

Lady Bird is remarkable for the range and depths of her loves fierce loyalties as well as small delights and for a physical and spir itual stamina which bore her through ordeals which would have drained lesser humans.

But the project, which would have drained the swamplands of the Sudd for agricultural use, was suspended in 1983 because of disruptions arising from the civil war in southern Sudan (now South Sudan).

Turned out the house ran on solar power and charging the phones while we slept would've drained too much of their energy reserve.

One of the earliest water projects in the Colorado River basin was the Grand Ditch, a 16 mile diversion canal that sends water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would naturally have drained into the headwaters of the Colorado River, to bolster supplies in Colorado's Front Range Urban Corridor.

Paradoxically, America's embrace of hip-hop culture would seem to have drained that culture of any meaning it had in the good old days of Tipper Gore, the Parents Music Resource Center and other attempts to stifle the medium by any means necessary.

Cashman said before the game that Matsui would have fluid drained from the knee.

The developers owned 600 strategically located acres, 200 of which would have been drained and filled to accommodate the mall.