Drain in example sentence

And if pain continued, a medical practitioner would perform the best-known remedy— drilling a small hole in the skull to drain supposedly infected blood.

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If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.

We have allowed despair and pessimism to drain us, drain our energies, limit our imaginations and dim our vision for a better and brighter future.

Now it does depend on how you measure it, of course, but one estimate has put the drain at 250 million dollars per day.

If our institutions are all failing and beyond hope for reform, a natural response is to seek to smash the machine, drain the swamp, burn the empire to the ground, on the hope that whatever rises out of the ashes is bound to be better than what we have now.

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