Sentence examples for been drained to from inspiring English sources

Where marshes have been drained to create tracts for new housing, ground will shrink, too.

Retirement accounts and savings, they say, have been drained to pay legal fees.

The pool had been drained to clean for the next day's visiting dignitaries, we were told.

By now the bucket of coffee has been drained to the bottom.

Many British bogs are seriously degraded because they have been drained to take out gardening material or to make way for development.

Since European colonization 150 years ago, as much as 90 percent of the country's original wetlands have been drained to make way for towns, farms and roads.

The lakes are drained to the Atlantic Ocean by the River Laune.

In the bad old days, not all wetlands were drained to build hotels.

Wetlands are drained to make more agricultural land or to accommodate expanding cities.

In the 20th century they were drained to serve as grazing areas for livestock.

It is drained to the east by the Rivers Trent and Dove.