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"Draining" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Tom found the exercise mentally draining.
The water on the road's surface isn't draining sufficiently.
If the birds of prey want someone's blood, if they want to go on draining the Brazilian people, I offer my life as a holocaust.
On-again, off-again relationships can be emotionally draining.
The war is draining our economy.
The app is draining the battery on my iPhone.
The experience was draining.
Layla's energy was rapidly draining away.
My strength is draining away. I'm losing consciousness.
Mennad's sink is draining extremely slowly.
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The author of this experiment has constructed, and uses a draining wheel of cast iron, that weighs about 4 cwt .
The mole-plough as a draining machine can never be of much utility in a country like Scotland, where alluvial deposits, though not deficient in extent, are characterized more by the abundance of stony matter than of clay in the subsoil; it is only in the few carses that such clays occur as would suit the mole plough.
We made a draining rack in a few odd minutes which saved considerable time over the common method of tying in sacks.
A brush support and wiping device comprising a vertical-walled skirt adapted to surround the upper periphery of a container, a draining ledge connected to the upper area of said skirt near the edge thereof and extending inwardly and downwardly therefrom at an angle of from approximately two to approximately six degrees from the horizontal , . . .
I was very tired; working everyday and then staying at the hospital was very draining.
He was in the luxurious position of not having to hunt for girls—a process he finds very draining.
Not every space is going to energise you, but if you work on looking after yourself more, the tolerance levels for spaces which you found more draining will increase.
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