Thesaurus / drained

drained

How to use drained in a sentence

On this account, great care should be taken to provide well-drained positions.

The pool was drained in 1866, and, having been filled up, its site will ere long be covered with streets of houses.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

The bed should be drained by a little ditch around it on the upper side.

It is very probable, indeed, that in twenty thousand years the waters of that basin will be to a great extent drained away.

Perhaps he had waited too long for the simple breakfast; perhaps the recent glory had drained him of vital force.

THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA

Kano leaned forward from time to time, filling the small cup which Tatsu—half in revery it seemed—had once more drained.

THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA

He drained the last drop, and the old friends exchanged smiles of answering satisfaction.

THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA

The subsoil should be drained four or six feet below the cellar floor, and this floor is to be laid in concrete and cement.

"Drink up, an' let us mak' a nicht o't," and thus urged they drained their glasses, and had them refilled again and again.

We changed our course so as to avoid the low hills drained by Crooked Creek, and made after the warriors.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985