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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:

The Los Angeles Times clucks that "public trust in product liability cases tried by juries might well be going down the drain with these excessive awards ."
"Experience shows there's a set amount of money that communities have been willing to spend on education," Gore argued on Meet the Press . "If you drain the money away from the public schools for private vouchers, then that hurts the public schools."
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.)
In order to "turn" this person, it is necessary for the vampire to drain the victim's tank and top it off at the crucial moment with a quart or so of his own blood, whereupon the thirsty recipient becomes a "new-born vampire weeping at the beauty of the night."
That was not counting the inevitable "business delegation" composed of representatives of government-owned financial institutions and companies, the Manila Times added, pointing out that "every single presidential aide or factotum gets $2,000 in allowance for a trip," meaning "$200,000 going down the drain for allowances alone," on top of which there were the air fares, hotel bills, rented cars and communications equipment, phone bills, "etcetera."