Sentence examples for held her down from inspiring English sources

The wrinkle-faced, bunch-fisted girl I had just delivered was already squalling, and I dried her with a towel and held her down beneath the level of her mother's hips for a moment.

In Ghana, the parents of a young girl who was forcibly cut sought to prosecute the woman who cut her as well as the ones who held her down and danced around her to usher her into womanhood.

"He said that they held her down," Ms. Goldner said.

Other people held her down and looked in her throat.

"You held her down?" "No, that's not it".

He stood, and firmly and fluidly held her down for an instant.

On Thursday, Blasey recounted to the Senate Judiciary Committee the evening Kavanaugh allegedly held her down on a bed, covered her mouth with his hand, and attempted to forcibly remove her clothing.

As the hulking stranger held her down by the throat and sexually assaulted her, the young woman stopped thinking about being rescued, about breaking free, or even about surviving.

The men then dragged her to a fetid makeshift shanty where some of them lived, and held her down while each man raped her in turn, the police said.

After she was thrown into the pickup truck, she said, security officers held her down, cursed at her and threatened to rape her.

If Tapp's DNA isn't found in them, that would disprove the prosecutors' claim that he held her down while she was killed.