Sentence examples for he held like from inspiring English sources
He left the compound with a brand-new 9-millimeter pistol in a smart black case that he held like a gift.
Although virtually every policy maker in his field knew of his work, the influence of the jobs he held, like assistant secretary of energy for environmental management and deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, far exceeded his public name recognition.
In front of the line, the group's leader, Beau Welling, the president of the Alberta chapter and national vice president of the III%, stood calling commands quietly into a cellphone he held like a walkie-talkie.
This is perhaps most evident in "The Guitar Player," where the image of a man with one arm poking through a piece of Astroturf — which he holds like a musical instrument — is subtly sliced and torqued.
Over the next 18 to 24 months, he said, he is optimistic about the prospects for a number of large-cap technology issues he holds, like Intel, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and EMC.
March 10 2012 The admired Scottish musician comes to the 92nd Street Y with his "Brahms guitar," an eight-stringed instrument that he holds like a cello; he employs its expanded possibilities in music by Bach (the Lute Suite No. 6, BWV 1012), Hindemith (a transcription of the Sonata for Harp), and Ponce.
The following year he held a like post at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and also wrote two operas on a larger scale, Il trionfo della libertà and Il Mitridate Eupatore, for production during the carnival in Venice.
As I dropped to my knees to face him, he held me like never before.
But even after Mr. Gore won his Congressional seat, he held something like 1,200 town meetings.
A doctor dug into Ibrahim's thigh and removed three twisted fragments of an M-16 bullet, which he held up like trophies.
