Sentence examples for held for many hours from inspiring English sources
According to one report, seven hostages were held for many hours after the main assault by a die-hard group of militants who resisted in part of the gas plant near the town of In Amenas, near the Libyan border.
"We have heard many stories of people being detained for hours for no apparent reason and on spurious grounds members of the community or their vehicles are often held for many hours waiting for a K9 team to come from Ottawa to search their vehicles and in the overwhelming majority of cases (99 plus percent) they are ultimately released with no charges.
Palestinian gunmen infiltrated the village and murdered 11 members of the Israeli team - some of the athletes and coaches were held hostage for many hours.
Instead, the 264 people who were swept up when police pulled nets across the street to block the bicycle protest found themselves stuck in a courthouse holding cell for many hours, waiting to be arraigned.
Imagine the physical pain caused by having to hold on for many hours until night has fallen and it dark before you can finally go.
On this, it turns out, he was right as well.Darwin noticed that when he suspended a stuffed duck's foot in an aquarium, invertebrate larvae attached themselves to it and held on tight for many hours, even if he removed it from the water.
The scene where Emily's (Alexis Bledel's character, who is married to a woman) documents are denied by ICE agents at the airport in Episode 2 reminds us of Trump's travel bans, which intercepted travelers at the airport and held them there for many hours.
Televisions, especially, have capacitors that will hold a charge for many hours, and it can kill you if discharged into your body.
Ficre's DNA is everywhere in the studio, and in the paintbrushes he held for so many hours.
Some are on a grand scale – such as Spain's concentrated solar power stations which, by super-heating molten salts that hold their heat for many hours, can generate clean power from the sun at night.
