Get to know Drain better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like drainage or run.
Drain in a sentence
Related words
Drain meaning
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
Synonyms of Drain
Using Drain
- The main meaning on this page is: A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK) | An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods. | A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
- Useful related words include: drainage, run, run out, depletion.
- In the example corpus, drain often appears in combinations such as: the drain, to drain, drain the.
Context around Drain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 14 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drain
- In this selection, "drain" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, storm, holderness, brain, commissioner, fix and super stand out and add context to how "drain" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a plastic drain into tracy and a storm drain that goes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drain" sits close to words such as automated, economists and gloves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
To utilise soda crystals for drain clearance, simply pour boiling water from a kettle down the drain. (17 words)
Boil them until just cooked (about 5 minutes), then drain and refresh immediately in iced water and drain again. (19 words)
Raines worked alongside former drain commissioners Bill Hair and Don Cooper before being elected drain commissioner herself in 2012. (19 words)
In January this year the developer dug a large trench at the front of the houses on her row to install a new sewage drain to connect the houses to the main old sewage drain, which crucially was not upgraded. (40 words)
Mr Dery said the Government had committed GH¢5.5 million in the 2018 budget for critical storm drain construction and dredging in areas such as South Kaneshie, Awudome and Adabraka-Odawna to direct outflows into the Odaw drain. (39 words)
According to the Ministry of Labour, a cap on a drain pipe shot off and struck a worker on Oct. 16, 2018 at a water drain chamber in a ravine near Fanshawe Park Road and Wonderland Road North. (38 words)
Did you know you can unclog a drain by crumbling an Alka Seltzer in the drain, then pour a cup of vinegar over it, wait 20 minutes and flush with hot water? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
A warning is also in place for Holderness Drain and Leven Drain in Leven village and Holderness Drain at Wawne Common and Woody Carr.
Divided into four main sections, readers will learn about The Big Drain, The Brain Drain Fix, The Brain Drain Super Fix, and Your Two-Week Plan.
What is making matters worse is that houses located along the drain are also directly releasing sewage into the drain, a section of residents rued.
In January this year the developer dug a large trench at the front of the houses on her row to install a new sewage drain to connect the houses to the main old sewage drain, which crucially was not upgraded.
To utilise soda crystals for drain clearance, simply pour boiling water from a kettle down the drain.
According to the Ministry of Labour, a cap on a drain pipe shot off and struck a worker on Oct. 16, 2018 at a water drain chamber in a ravine near Fanshawe Park Road and Wonderland Road North.
Boil them until just cooked (about 5 minutes), then drain and refresh immediately in iced water and drain again.
There were similarities between the “drain” of surplus from colonial Ireland as depicted here and the British drain of surplus from India.
Duties of the drain commissioner are set forth in the Michigan Drain Code (Public Act 40 of 1956 as amended).
Karlin said the plan is to remove the large drain dip at the intersection and install a curb and gutter storm drain system with pipe culverts.
Kingsbury said in an email Monday, “The Clare City Commission petitioned the Little Tobacco Drain Board in September 2013 to evaluate and as needed make needed improvements to the drain.
Raines worked alongside former drain commissioners Bill Hair and Don Cooper before being elected drain commissioner herself in 2012.
The group included two men climbing out of an underground drain and four people - three men and a woman - who had removed a manhole cover and lowered a rope into the drain to assist them, police said.
Did you know you can unclog a drain by crumbling an Alka Seltzer in the drain, then pour a cup of vinegar over it, wait 20 minutes and flush with hot water?
Doctors inserted a plastic drain into Tracy's lung to drain out the blood and she still requires weekly check-ups at hospital to monitor her breathing.
It has been seen that water flowing over the drain during monsoon gets accumulated in the residential area near the drain.
It was caused by an illegal connection of a storm drain that goes into the Red Run Drain in Sterling Hts.
Mr Dery said the Government had committed GH¢5.5 million in the 2018 budget for critical storm drain construction and dredging in areas such as South Kaneshie, Awudome and Adabraka-Odawna to direct outflows into the Odaw drain.
All of these switches are limited on what signals they can pass or stop by their gate–source, gate–drain and source–drain voltages; exceeding the voltage, current, or power limits will potentially damage the switch.
Based on this definition, the drain efficiency cannot exceed 25% for a class A amplifier that is supplied drain bias current through resistors (because RF signal has its zero level at about 50% of the input DC).
Common combinations with drain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the drain 40×
- to drain 23×
- drain the 21×
- brain drain 19×
- drain on 13×
- drain and 10×
- drain in 9×
- and drain 9×
- drain to 7×
- water drain 5×