Sentence examples for described being held from inspiring English sources

One man described being held down as his leg was amputated with nothing to numb the pain.

The detention building has remained off limits to journalists, but released detainees have described being held in barbed-wire pens inside the large building, under constant electric light.

He and the other French journalists released in April described being held in about 10 underground places of captivity, mostly with other people.

Paul Terry, 27, was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery with a dangerous weapon after a man described being held up at knifepoint by a man fitting his distinctive description.

Migrants described being held at checkpoints by security officers who would then proceed to call up traffickers and turn them over to them for money.

He described being held at gunpoint moments before his friend ran down a hallway toward the two gunmen and began fighting with them.

The private mass of hope, as it was described, was held at the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, Mourneabbey, near the town of Mallow.

Female genital cutting/mutilation (FGC/M), or circumcision as it was previously described, is held responsible for a multitude of health risks.

The incident described was held in the public room of Pramana's home, a room Pramana had previously used for running informal educational sessions for his and the neighbouring children.

One former captive describes being held still in a "metal device" that kept him entirely rigid.

At some schools, girls describe being held down in the playground and groped.