Sentence examples for were submerged by from inspiring English sources

In Europe the vestiges of Greco-Roman culture were submerged by the early Christian Church.

Many homes in New Orleans were submerged by the surge of floodwater brought on by the storm.

City roads were submerged by torrents of icy and increasingly polluted water from swollen tunnels, sewers and drains.

Others, notably the search for the killer of PC Yvonne Fletcher, were submerged by the drive for warmer relations with Libya and the prospect of lucrative business deals.

Agence France-Presse reported that at the airport in Goma, parts of the runway were submerged by lava but the buildings and fuel stocks were untouched.

Those who had no savings or were unable to negotiate the labyrinthine insurance and compensation processes and were submerged by bureaucracy.

Around 177,000 tubewells have been submerged by the floods; submerged tubewells are now quickly being rehabilitated.

The N.C.A.A. will be submerged by creeping Olympism, which leads to total commercialism.

They had to avoid being submerged by nets full of fish, crustacean, mud and rocks.

He says the effects of debt cancellation have been submerged by corruption and inequality.

The landmass of the western world is slowly being submerged by bad books.