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Example sentences for: draining

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These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Charles II granted this tentacular private joint-stock company control of all territories draining into Hudson Bay; they were named Rupert’s Land after the king’s cousin, who was also titular head of the company.
But trying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean.
You can take a ferryboat through the harbor, past the ingenious Plover Cove reservoir, a water catchment area appropriated by damming and draining a broad inlet from the sea.
The show is emotionally draining on a regular basis, so this week's attempt by the idealistic Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) to perform a holiday miracle on a dying teenager is guaranteed to have you doubling up on Prozac.