Example sentences for: drain

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

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 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 ."

  • He waded near the bank and watched the light Drain through the trees and set on the water That told his fortune with floating sticks and leaves.

  • A story says that Russia is suffering another huge brain drain.


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