Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "drain board".
She put another plate on the drain board and began scrubbing a pot.
She leaned against the edge of the drain board and her fingers fiddled with a folded tea towel.
I removed the top of the maker and set it on the drain board in the socket of the cover.
Amaryllis hoisted the clean pot out of the sink and set it on the drain board.
There were no dirty cups or plates on the drain board, no smeared glasses or empty liquor bottles hanging around.
We heaved it open and picked a piece of jagged cast metal off the linoleum and laid it politely on the woodstone drain board, beside about nine empty gin bottles.
She took two salmon-colored Melmac cups from the drain board, and made coffee.
He started to help her move the dishes to the drain board of her modern wet-sink, but she told him they could wait till she felt more in the mood for housework.
On the woodstone drain board stood the remains of somebody's breakfast, mud at the bottom of a cup, a burnt crust of bread, crumbs on a board, a yellow slime of melted butter down the slope of a saucer, a smeared knife and a granite coffee pot that smelled like sacks in a hot barn.
On the woodstone drain board stood the remains of somebodys breakfast, mud at the bottom of a cup, a burnt crust of bread, crumbs on a board, a yellow slime of melted butter down the slope of a saucer, a smeared knife and a granite coffee pot that smelled like sacks in a hot barn.