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Example sentences for "drainer"

Lexicographically close words:
drags; drain; drainage; drainages; drained; draining; drainings; drains; drakes; drale
  1. I was working with a drainer at the time and I had thirty shillings in my possession.

  2. When the surface-water and shallow springs have thus been cut off, the drainer will soon be able to determine, whether he has effected a cure of his dropsical patient.

  3. No scientific drainer uses any but pipes in England, and the million of acres well drained with them, is pretty good evidence of their sufficiency.

  4. He says, in his letter to the editor: "When so experienced a drainer as Mr. Johnston expresses an opinion that some soils cannot be drained, it is important we should know what the soil is which cannot be drained.

  5. Put the fish on the drainer of the fish-kettle, pour the juice of a lemon over it, and cover with equal parts of milk and water.

  6. With the maps before him, showing the surface features of the field, and the position of the under-ground rock, the drainer will have to consider the following points: 1.

  7. No rules can be laid down as to the depth or distance between the drains which can be universally applicable, but the intelligent drainer will seek to modify his practice according to the circumstances of the case.

  8. Some housekeepers keep in one end of the sink a wire dish drainer into which all fruit and vegetable parings are put.

  9. These cleaner dishes often need no rubbing with cloth or brush, but can be lifted out of the water and placed in a drainer or pan, the cups on their sides, the plates on edge.

  10. The dish drainer must have a tray to stand on or be replaced with pans.

  11. The other extreme is to arrange them in a drainer and either pour scalding water over them or immerse them for a moment in scalding water and then leave them to dry by their own heat which they do almost instantly.

  12. The middle way is to set the dishes in a drainer and pour scalding water over them as in the other case, but this time to complete the work by wiping each piece.

  13. Usually the flat silver can all be put into the water at once, then washed a few pieces at a time and laid carefully in a drainer or pan.

  14. There is a possibility of the drainer valve leaking and then the water pressure will leak through it, causing a waste of water.

  15. A cellar drainer is employed to empty the above-mentioned pit.

  16. When the pit is filled with water, the drainer operates and empties the pit and discharges the water into a sink or open sewer connection.

  17. The pipes leading to and from the drainer should empty into an open sink where it can be seen.

  18. The cellar drainer is operated by water pressure.

  19. When the pit is emptied, the drainer shuts off.

  20. The cellar drainer is connected directly with the water pressure and should have a valve close to the connection to control the supply.

  21. Stuffed Tomatoes= Select large firm tomatoes, cut out the stem end, remove the inside with a teaspoon and turn upside down on a drainer for the liquid to drain out.

  22. Lay in a flat pan or wire dish drainer and put into a warm oven.

  23. Now, set the pan in the sink with a large fine colander in the dish drainer beside it.

  24. If there is not room for two pans, the dishes may be piled on the drainer not too many at a time, and the rinsing water poured over.

  25. Have a pan for washing and another for rinsing, and a tray for draining if there is no drainer attached to the sink.

  26. I have measured the sink and find that the drainer needs to be so long and so wide, and I know that the plumber three blocks away will make it for so much.

  27. It is more than probable that the rack, the hook, and the drainer will be promised, although no time may be set for the fulfilment of the promise.

  28. For instance, I want to agree with a drainer to make a trench in my field for a hundred sous.

  29. A Parisian tavern-keeper has gained a hundred sous, I grant you; but then you must grant me that a drainer has been prevented from gaining five francs.

  30. Place them above a kettle of boiling water, in a kind of drainer made for that purpose, and adapted to the kettle.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drainer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.