Example sentences for: reclaimed

How can you use “reclaimed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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."

  • The Jews reclaimed the Temple from the Greeks, and rededicated it as their place of worship.

  • Bile acids are reclaimed from the lumen of the intestine and returned to the liver via portal blood for reuse [ 1 ] . The recovery of bile acids from the intestine is an efficient process that involves both passive transport along the entire axis of the intestine, and active transport in the terminal ileum [ 5 ] . The apical sodium/bile acid co-transporter (asbt) mediates the active uptake of conjugated bile acids in the ileum [ 5 6 ] . In hepatocytes, both sodium-dependent and sodium-independent transport systems on the sinusoidal membranes extract bile acids from portal blood.

  • 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.


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