Sentence examples for bay for a while from inspiring English sources
Cech kept them at bay for a while.
The best that can be done is to keep it at bay for a while.
Hamied had been making the antiretrovirals that hold HIV at bay for a while.
The specter of Al Qaeda may keep the I.R.A. at bay for a while -- but probably not indefinitely.
He marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., and kept the draft board at bay for a while by becoming a VISTA volunteer in the Deep South.
That and the new government's hesitancy about free trade with the United States may hold the street at bay for a while.
If this is not possible, try to go and lie down in the sick bay for a short while; at least it will give you quiet rest and some time to think over things.
Stripped of the cityscapes and histories into which they were born — and which, by their exertions, they helped, in varying degrees, to change — Gatson's "icons" held my anxieties at bay, if only for a while.
Between them, Williams and Hook held the Zulu advance at bay for a further hour, while smashing holes through another three walls to evacuate eight patients to the protection of the garrison's inner defensive ring.
Last summer women from 21 countries came to stay in the sprawling house on three acres with a pool, a tennis court and a kayak-stocked dock on Moriches Bay, to starve and stretch for a while.
It was a chance to lose themselves in what they could make seem like a normal game, wrote Tom Sorensen in The Charlotte Observer, to hold the real world at bay, even for just a while.
