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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:

Assuming no other changes, these programs would constitute a substantial drain on the earnings of our future workers.
A single keystroke will give you the book, drain your bank account of five shiny quarters, and leave you feeling like an honest, upstanding citizen.
The other was made to an errant undergraduate whom he rusticated with the stern rebuke, “You have hissed my mystery lessons, you have tasted three worms, you must leave by the town drain.”
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).
I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States--I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually--I listen to no entreaties, I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me, Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,