Sentence examples for crowd was held from inspiring English sources

Later, outside the restaurant and throbbing nightclub, a dressy crowd was held back in the sand by doormen.

Standing and singing alongside his astoundingly talented wife Morgane, Stapleton and Timberlake delivered bluesy, crooning, utterly roaring vocals on Tennessee Whiskey and Timberlake's Drink You Away, and the entire crowd was held visibly rapt with awe.

Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) It would be funny if one old guy in the crowd was holding up a rotary phone.

From a safe vantage point across the increasingly overheated gallery, Nadal was obscured from view as he worked his way from painting to painting Friday night, but it was easy to follow his progress with the cellphone screens and iPads that the crowd was holding aloft.

So in 1991, during the last minutes of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Nenashev drew a team of riot police, wielding water hoses and preparing to turn back a throng of demonstrators — except that all the people in the crowd were holding up houseplants.

The willing-buyer crowd is holding back on buying GM debt only until it sees how low it can go.

The Republican National Convention came to a close Thursday night with a speech by GOP nominee Donald Trump, but some people on Twitter were more preoccupied with the poorly translated "Hispanics Para Trump" signs some people in the crowd were holding up. .

The crowds were held back by security guards during the final heat — the 10-time world champion Kelly Slater versus the Australian Owen Wright — as enthusiastic fans tried to get close to the action.

Lampard, who delivered a speech to the crowd and was held aloft in celebration by his team-mates after the final whistle, was replaced after 75 minutes and received a standing ovation from the home fans.

Mourinho received a mixed reception from the crowd and play was held up as stewards cleared a large group of photographers from the technical area.

But the show, a spoof of 1930's movie musical clichés, was a novelty, a mini-crowd pleaser that was held over for 13 weeks.