"drain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All the while, she kept barking the disarming commands into the bracelet, but with steadily draining hope that she could have any influence over the weapons.
- Some of this water will steadily drain through the soil (via gravity) and end up in the waterways and streams.
- Its loss would sap the steadily draining reservoir of national will, with unpredictable political consequences.
- I saw friends steadily drained of life.
- He would have had longer just lying on the ramp, but moving had shortened his life, quickened the sapping forces steadily draining him of strength and vitality.
- With the population decline steadily draining city tax revenues, Congress created a control board with broad powers to intervene anywhere it deemed change was necessary.
- She wanted to do no more than be where she was, for it seemed that strength drained steadily from her as blood flowing from an open wound.
- All I know is that our power levels are draining steadily.
- Providing the psychic shield needed to keep the terrorists from invading the room with their own waves of power had been steadily draining her strength.
- But it was hard to hold on to hope when his strength drained away steadily.
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