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Example sentences for: drain

How can you use “drain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Having lost my twenty-year-old Timex down a hotel drain, I found myself shopping for a watch a few months ago.
The biggest problems we face are brain drain, inadequate infrastructure, and lack of money (or perhaps, lack of money, lack of money, and lack of money).
An article calls the Sierra Club's campaign to drain artificial Lake Powell, on the Utah-Arizona border, a publicity stunt.
The fact, according to geologists, is that the Kathmandu Valley was indeed once a lake, though the valley’s waters now drain through the narrow cleft of Chobar Gorge, which was most likely created by a large earthquake.)
A story says that Russia is suffering another huge brain drain.