Sentence examples for held for three nights from inspiring English sources

She was held for three nights in the V.I.P. cell of a police station, then placed under house arrest.

Literally, in the case of Fergus Blackie, a retired Zimbabwean justice: he was hauled from his home before dawn, held for three nights in jail, and paraded through the bumpy streets of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, on an open Land Rover, in handcuffs.On September 16th, Mr Blackie was charged with obstructing the course of justice and, for good measure, with corruption too.

Yesterday, Murrumu Walubara Yidindji was released from custody after being held for three nights by the Australian Capital Territory Corrective Services.

Though charged eventually with misdemeanours, they were both held for four nights in police custody.

VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky was kidnapped and held captive for three nights and three days in Sloviansk.

Ostrovsky was released on Thursday after being beaten and held captive for three nights.

I was held for three days and three nights without food or water, deprived of sleep and subjected to what some of your friends like to call "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- electricity, waterboarding that would leave no marks.

Thunderclouds lowered over "Nabucco" and gray skies dimmed "Madama Butterfly," but the weather held for two consecutive nights to allow the annual Met in the Parks concerts to proceed.

First, they arrested a slender seventeen-year-old university freshman named Joshua Wong and held him for two nights.

Yes, there are people who take the ukulele seriously, more or less, and they're holding forth for two nights.

A second strike will be held for two hours from 06:00 GMT on Monday 4 November, the day before Bonfire Night.