Sentence examples for they were drained from inspiring English sources

"They were drained for agricultural uses, then filled for commercial and industrial," she said.

They were drained from what they've been doing over the last seven and eight weeks.

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

Perhaps they were drained by the summer's British Lions tour of South Africa.

More than 1,000 of those who were killed after passing through Tuol Sleng died when they were drained of blood, which was then sent for use in hospitals.

Iraqi ornithologists have begun surveying the birds of the country's southern marshes, which stretched for 20,000 square km (7,722 square miles) until they were drained and destroyed by Saddam Hussein's government.

"They were draining resources, and everyone knew it, yet neither the C.E.O.

Pettitte (14-6) pitched seven and one-third innings to win his fifth consecutive start, but they were draining innings.

They were draining the outboard motor of fuel, so that they could fill up their car and drive off in search of food.

Congress in 2003 temporarily banned new construction of specialty hospitals over concern that they were draining profit away from the full-service hospitals.

In Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous, which includes Birmingham, officials say they had to stop paying even their general obligations because they were draining the cash they needed for essential services.