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Example sentences for: drains

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The breast incisions were closed without drainage, and all axillae were drained postoperatively by closed vacuum drains (ch-14; Biometrix).
But it drains the moral currency from a very real and still unfortunately useful concept in the world of humans.
That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.
They call the estate tax an exercise in class warfare , and argue that it drains money from private investment.
Here's an actress with a rare knack for emotional realism, the kind of intelligent, commanding presence that drains reality from lesser co-stars.