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Example sentences for: reclaimed

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If you continue to the end of the promenade, you will be in Tsim Sha Tsui East, a busy commercial district built on more than 60 hectares (150 acres) of reclaimed land.
As someone born to a mother in her first year of medical school and a father in his third, I was--with great regret--placed in the care of grandparents for the first years of my life and later reclaimed before my third birthday.
The island was needed as a military base but was too small for that purpose, so extra land was reclaimed from the sea to create a land area big enough for an air base and naval station.
The once miserable wasteland of run-down warehouses, lumber-mills, factories, and railyards has been reclaimed not only for the upbeat commercial enterprises that are now a familiar feature of any Canadian city with a waterfront, but also as a handsome residential neighborhood.
The "chicken flu" epidemic, from which a third child has died in Hong Kong, continued to dominate the pages of the South China Morning Post, which by way of light relief reported on Monday that Hong Kong had "reclaimed part of its heritage" by setting the record for "the world's largest dancing dragon."