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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 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.)
An article calls the Sierra Club's campaign to drain artificial Lake Powell, on the Utah-Arizona border, a publicity stunt.
While transaction processing will always exist, it does not have to drain the finance organization's resources.
That unit is now generally acknowledged to be a drain on the company's stock price, and so Monsanto shareholders have been hoping for a full spin-off.
Their stories range from a mirthful account by a Bristol woman about her shiftless next-door neighbor whose overflowing drain gutters flooded her property, to a somber story by a man from South Wales whose son's leg was amputated in a fearful childhood accident.