Sentence examples for they were preserved from inspiring English sources
To find out whether the ancient English mummified their dead, archaeologists examined skeletons from burial sites across the island and compared them with well-preserved mummies from Yemen and Ireland (where they were preserved in a peat bog).
"They were preserved by great-granddaughters who knew they'd been passed on something to treasure," he added.
They were preserved as iron monuments to the shock and awe philosophy of the United States military.
They were preserved in a recently unearthed archive in cuneiform Hittite, an Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
They were preserved for future generations only by the quick thinking of New Oxford American Dictionary lexicographers, who rapidly made "refudiate" a real word.
Translators took Greek works and rendered them into Arabic, in which they were preserved to be translated into European languages several centuries later.
"It almost looks like they were preserving the space for him," he said.
Both insisted they were preserving their nation from communism; both were wicked frauds.
"It was explained to me that by hiring Dick, they were preserving my investment".
How should they be preserved, if at all?
How might they be preserved to keep them from disintegrating?
