How to use drain in a sentence. If you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it: Look up drain in wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kitchen and bathroom sink drains can trap food and bacteria that cause smelly odors Learn how to clean a sink drain using baking soda and vinegar (no chemicals!) so it smells fresh and drains well. To or into the condition of being wasted or lost
All of our best laid plans are down the drain. To withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually Remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration. See examples of drain used in a sentence. To empty by drawing off liquid [~ + object] to drain a swamp
[no object] the crankcase has to drain before you put on the new filter. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes. To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process.
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