Example Sentences

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Financial mismanagement and the bankruptcy of multiple large employers have drained the town’s coffers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025

Milei's government has tried to stabilise the situation, but the moves have drained the country's reserves a few months before billions in debt payments will come due.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

The new measures have drained some of the mystery from the site and raised the prospect of it becoming yet another tourist attraction in a country filled with them.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2023

After a court battle that has been fought over a decade in no fewer than seven countries, both Yegiazaryan and his former partner have spent huge sums that have drained them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

It was partly because Ruth was exhausted—that last conversation on the roadside seemed to have drained her.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro