Sentence examples for held carelessly from inspiring English sources

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I was nearly catatonic with dread, standing stiff-legged atop my skis with my poles held carelessly in dangling, frozen hands, eyes filling up with tears that were brought on by more than the wet wind in my face.

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While many private companies were performing well, "we have, however, seen an irresponsible minority of privately held companies acting carelessly – leaving employees, customers and pension fund beneficiaries to suffer when things go wrong.

But those songs, like the word she employed so carelessly, hold more meaning than, say, Surfin' Safari by the Beach Boys.

The robberies are being driven by an insatiable demand for a product worth hundreds of dollars that millions of people carelessly hold on subways and sidewalks, creating what police say is a crime of opportunity.

With the murder rate in La Paz is now back to the levels prior to the bloodbath, sunburnt tourists in board shorts walk along the water holding expensive cameras carelessly, elderly men drinking beer sing along with roaming Mariachi bands, and locals appear to be getting on with their normal lives.

A trolley cluttered with plastic-foam heads, bald for the purposes of rehearsal but ultimately to be equipped with wigs, was wheeled in for her perusal; Dessay cast a weary eye upon them, carelessly rummaged through them, and held one up — like a Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorick — before tossing it aside in disdain.

He said that the force will seek to press charges against the person held responsible for bringing a gun to the house and carelessly leaving it within the reach of a child.

It was sold for nearly nothing, in carelessly assembled lots, and mostly snapped up by dealers at a raucous auction held to pay his creditors, primarily the Marquess of Queensberry, who was awarded £600 in court costs after Wilde had disastrously and unsuccessfully sued him for libel.

The conspirators appear to have kept silent about their plans before September 11th, but to have boasted carelessly about their gruesome triumph after the event.Most of the people detained so far are being held on the pretext of "immigration concerns", after initial questioning suggested that they might know something useful.

We were carelessly discreet, never discussing our relationship with anyone in the business, yet forgetful of our actions: When we briefly held hands at a museum event, everyone in my office seemed to know about it the next day.

I noticed what held my weakest students back – too much focus on writing down notes, crippling shyness and fear of making mistakes, and the other extreme – overconfidence, speaking at length and carelessly repeating the same errors.

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