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Example sentences for: drain

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A Drain on Defense?
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.
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.
And that, in turn, can drain investment capital, alarm an inflation-wary Federal Reserve Board, raise interest rates, and unnerve financial markets.
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.