6 sentences with 'drained'
Example sentences and phrases with the word drained and other words derived from it.
• « By 600 BC the Romans had drained the swamp in the middle of their territory and built the first of their great public buildings. »
• « Along with spices (especially pepper), the silk trade eventually drained huge amounts of gold from Rome, adding up to a serious economic liability over the hundreds of years of trade. »
• « In the end, the Byzantines succeeded in destroying the Gothic kingdom and retaking Italy, but the war crippled the Italian economy and drained the Byzantine coffers. »
• « Soviet engineers and planners drained entire river systems to irrigate fields, Soviet factories produced thousands of tons of products and materials that no one wanted, and entire regions were polluted to the point of becoming almost uninhabitable. »
• « Without the flow of foreign exchange from England, American depositors drained gold and silver from their own domestic banks, making foreign exchange scarce. »