Sentence examples for described was held from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Akash, like others, described being held in safe houses along the route, sometimes spending weeks in unfamiliar towns and cities, the names of which they were often never told.

One captive described being held with many "young girls in detention along with a number of women and children, and [militants] coming and taking away the young women," Abrahams recounted to VICE News.

According to the UK NGO Save the Children, a 16-year-old survivor named Said described being held captive for months in Libya after fleeing Somalia the previous summer.