Sentence examples for were drained to from inspiring English sources

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

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

Many of the basins were once sites of major lakes that were drained to facilitate European and mestizo settlement.

He did well, but when he became sick, the family's savings were drained to pay for treatments not covered by insurance.

Residents used to commute from here to the city by steamboat, until the waters were drained to create farmland and roads in the late 19th century.

Swamps were drained to create agricultural fields and housing developments; this caused the peaty marsh soils to oxidize and shrink, like a drying sponge, resulting, in many instances, in new expanses of open water.

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

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

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

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

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