Sentence examples for were reclaimed from inspiring English sources

One by one, with patient, loving, piecemeal effort, the houses were reclaimed.

A century later, the meetinghouse and surrounding cemetery were reclaimed, when membership revived again.

Alkmaar became an important trade centre after 1564, when the surrounding swamps were reclaimed.

Jihad was the responsibility of all Muslims, he taught, until the lands once held by Islam were reclaimed.

Twenty years later, the events were reclaimed as a chapter in the heroic pre-revolutionary struggle of the Russian people.

Much later, they were reclaimed as founders of a project they had no part in imagining or building.

Much swampland has been reclaimed.

Wieringermeer was reclaimed by 1930.

The industrial river front has been reclaimed.

It has since been reclaimed by Pellegrini.

David Malcolm explained that it was "reclaimed" land.