Example Sentences

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Brian Bethune, an economist at Boston College, said the shutdown was draining the flow of liquidity in the economy.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 22, 2025

As water rose in the lake late this spring, Schwarzman’s neighbors suspected he was draining a shared aquifer through boreholes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

It added the insolvency caused it to lose £5.5m and that Keith's personal spending was draining the company of money.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025

Piro said he never got the sense that the emotional challenge of the divorce was draining her ability to continue to fight “on the medical side.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

All the pride Americans had felt in the Big Science that had won World War II was draining away at the spectacle of multimillion-dollar rockets exploding in flight.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik