Sentence examples for were given over from inspiring English sources
In Cambodia, for example, 1.2 million hectares were given over for commercial rubber cultivation in 2011, according to the nonprofit Forest Trends, which tracks deforestation worldwide.
Suicide victims were given over, as were infants who had died while being born and also the unclaimed bodies of abandoned children.
My own teenage years were given over to 1990s pop; Björk, Pulp, Whigfield.
The two forward ones, which were given over to passengers, contained about eighty bunks apiece.
Early mornings were given over to fresh-air calisthenics, cold showers, and meditation.
The grandest villas were given over to top apparatchiks in the German Democratic Republic.
They closed in '47, and the islands were given over to the Public Bldgs.
Sodden nights on the Continental shelf were given over to war stories, some of them true.
The movie's epilogue announces that the story's protagonists were given over to the equality of death 200 years ago.
Despite that, two pages were given over entirely to sports coverage, and sports stories littered the news pages.
A 1994 study found that more than a third of all 3-year-olds in the country were given over-the-counter cough and cold preparations in one 30-day span.
