What is "draining"

Usage examples of "draining".

He saw the national investment in Vietnam draining our disposable strength from Europe and the Middle East and the likelihood that the more we Americanized the war, the less South Vietnam would do for itself.

Will Fowler had been such a powerful and energetic man yet his life was now draining rapidly away in the miserable setting of a Bankside stew.

Moreover, the improvements made by the late Sir Peter Fitzgerald were not only considerable in the way of draining and fencing, but are visible to the naked eye in the shape of some fifty new houses, well and solidly built of stone with slate roofs, sleeping rooms up stairs, properly separated after the most approved fashion, a cowhouse, and other offices required by the Board of Works.

He tried to get me to back a chain of filling stations whose gimmick would be a special brand of oil-filtered crankcase drainings, picked up for a song, dyed orange and handsomely packaged.

In this era of railroad building, there is hardly a county in America which has not a practical surveyor, who may easily qualify himself, by a study of the principles and directions herein set forth, to lay out an economical plan for draining any ordinary agricultural land, to stake the lines, and to determine the grade of the drains, and the sizes of tile with which they should be furnished.

Before the advent of the Draining Tile, covered drains were furnished with stones, boards, brush, weeds, and various other rubbish, and their good effect, very properly, claimed the attention of all improvers of wet land.

Ahead lay the confluence of elemental flows, a mixing of channels draining from both the Northern and Southern Fangs.

The best solution would be to flood the soil and use a cocktail of halophyte sulphur-reducing bacteria to dissolve the iron and sulphur before draining out the water.

What Johansson had just said hit him like a particularly volatile police stun charge, draining all the energy from his limbs to leave nothing but sharp tingling.

Now the Crab is back, claw immense and gangrenous, stinking so badly that Kraft can barely get close enough to schedule him for immediate draining.

The blue lines would thin, the enthusiasm for the fight draining away, and with that, the Federal army would cease to be.

They drank swiftly, draining their mugs in a few gulps, and began casting glances at Magali, who was now devouring her second steak.

Vaska Shmakov greeted me with a friendly shout, drawing his sleeve across his perspiring face after draining a messtin of hot water.

Warlord rasped irritably, draining his goblet at a draft and hurling the goblet from him, to clang like a golden bell against the cold pavestone somewhere in the shadows beyond the reach of the firelight.

We have a shorter season but a brighter sun, and if we do not have richer grass it is due to the want of draining, clean culture, and manuring.