DRAIN in a Sentence

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For DRAIN, below is one of 79 sentences:
There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drain
 n.  draw out; flow out; waste
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  I'm going to drain the pool today, Mr. Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  The enclosure of Norland Common, now carrying on, is a most serious drain.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
4  He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  She shivered in the garage while he spent half an hour in deciding whether to put alcohol or patent non-freezing liquid into the radiator, or to drain out the water entirely.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  It is a force seeking to dominate the earth, to drain the hills and sea of color, to set Dante at boosting Gopher Prairie, and to dress the high gods in Klassy Kollege Klothes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  'A drain for the boy,' said Toby, half-filling a wine-glass.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
9  I assure you that two thousand pounds would be a drain upon her resources, and that the sum you name is utterly beyond her power.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
10  Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all connoisseurs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
11  Three squads of agents and sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—EXPLANATION
12  Yet midway my hope is, if righteous gods can do aught at all, thou wilt drain the cup of vengeance on the rocks, and re-echo calls on Dido's name.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
13  They sit down at the thwarts, and their arms are tense on the oars; at full strain they wait the signal, while throbbing fear and heightened ambition drain their riotous blood.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
14  She could think but could not feel, not about him nor Tara either, for she was drained of all emotion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  The afternoon's events had drained her of all feeling, first the startling news about the taxes, then Ashley and, last, her murderous rage at Jonas Wilkerson.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  If there is brain drain from a particular country, it can scarcely develop.
17  Before serving the spaghetti, place it in a colander to drain it.
18  We've seen clumsy security measures make life miserable at our airports and drain vitality from our public spaces.
19  He drained the tank of all water.
20  At the news the old lady was so afraid that her face was drained of blood.
21  The long journey completely drained me.
22  Colum drained the dregs from his cup.
23  She was so thirsty that she drained her cup.
24  He felt as if he had been drained of all his energy.
25  The flood on the road eventually drained off into the ditch.
26  The water drained out of the flowerpot through the hole in the bottom.
27  If this wet land was drained, it would be good farmland.
28  He drained all the old oil out of the container.
29  A congressional inquiry found no evidence to support this, though it confirmed that the Brazilian team had agreed to play an inordinate number of friendlies that drained the players' energies.
30  The drains flooded and water overflowed down the main street.