Without explanation, she put it back on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

She shook the packages over the sink and dropped them on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unforgiven] Reference

I got up from the table and set my plate on the drainboard, half of my food uneaten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Rainbow] Reference

The water that had been carried from the well stood in a wooden bucket on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference

Johnny and Barney huddled against the kitchen drainboard out of the main stream of traffic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

She picked up another breast from the drainboard and began to wash it off under the faucet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unforgiven] Reference

Downstairs, I found the bottle of Ancient Age that my father always kept under the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference

She picked up the first package on the drainboard, poking her finger into the plastic wrapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unforgiven] Reference

When he had enough bulbs, he went back to the house and dumped them on the drainboard of the sink.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Legend]

Then he pulled a five-pound sack of flour from the cabinet, letting it fall heavily to the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [RL’s Dream] Reference

Out of the corner of her eyes she noticed that somebody had knocked over a package of baking soda on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Trailer Mystery]

Holding her knife poised above her chop board, Ella raised her head and looked through the window over the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainwater] Reference

There was a sink with a hot plate on the drainboard and shelves that were once cabinets—before the doors were torn off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned] Reference

Several pieces of crockery and china were knocked off the drainboard and onto the floor, breaking in the widening puddle of starch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainwater] Reference

He drank from it, then took a cigar stub out of his shirt pocket, put it between his teeth, and leaned on his arms against the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Convict and Other Stories] Reference

I got up and followed the phone cord across the floor to where the instrument sat on the drainboard of the sink, and grabbed it up irritably.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Dread]

He finished his iced tea in one long swallow, then immediately took the glass to the sink, rinsed it out, and put it in the rack on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Butchers Hill]

She walked to the sink and took a clean, two-gallon milk can from the drainboard and set it in the sink to fill it from the pails of rich, frothy milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

Fifteen bunches of twelve roses each hung over the sink and drainboard; some still soft and deep red while others had already dried to a spiky, rich black.    From Wordnik.com.  [RL’s Dream] Reference

She drained it and replaced it with hot water, but after turning off the faucet, she curved her hands over the edge of the drainboard, bracing herself against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainwater] Reference

He shook his head — Hank was still within hearing — and guided me into the other part of the kitchen, where a jug of Gallo's cheapest stood on the drainboard of the sink.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Something In A Sunday]

His bicycles were parked in the living room, there was an 8-foot radius of seed hulls around the mynah bird cage, every dish and utensil was in the sink or on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do you need to call in a consultant to make your home "relationship ready"?] Reference

A kitchen opened off the end of the hall — one of the old-fashioned kind like All Souls ', with black-and-white-checkered linoleum, a sink with a drainboard, and a hulking black iron range.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Something In A Sunday]

I followed her to the cracked sink with the corrugated drainboard at which she had so often washed my face and hands after I came in from the back yard, or when I was ready to eat or go to sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers for Algernon]

Sui-ling stood with his back to them, continuing a slow progression through a large stack of wine glasses and tumblers piled high on the pine counter's drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [banane] Reference

An inspector took off three points because an employee drained carrots in the seafood sink, celery was on the seafood sink drainboard and chicken was stored above fish and roast.    From Wordnik.com.  [WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Local News, Weather and Sports for Wilmington, NC and the Cape Fear Region] Reference

Money isn't like paper towels, where you use them once and then have to throw them away, and if my wife uses up all the paper towels and I can't get to the store then the dishes will have to sit in the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

I put a couple of aspirins and vitamin B’s and a glass of water on the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Rainbow] Reference

Knowing Viddy’s feelings about her china, Lem carefully placed the cups he was carrying on top of the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Thief] Reference

I set it back on the drainboard, my head tingling with anger and the bourbon’s heat and the strange movements of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference

I rubbed my fingers along the polished, inlaid stock, then wrapped the barrel with a rag and locked it in the machinist’s vise that I kept anchored to one end of the drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neon Rain] Reference

Uncovered drink on washing machine drainboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference