Sentence examples for held station from inspiring English sources

The trio held station until just before the first round of pit stops, when things quickly unravelled for Button.

By 1986, WMCA was the last privately held station in a leading urban market when Mr. Straus sold it to Federal Enterprises of Detroit for $10 million.

Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson held station at fifth in the Star keelboat while Nick Dempsey moved from first to third in the windsurfer.

Biaggi held station to come home in second with Britain's Leon Haslam (BMW Motorrad Motorsport) in third, just ahead of Melandri.

Beñat Intxausti burst for the line with 400m to go to claim victory on stage 16 of the Giro d'Italia as the general classification leaders held station behind.

I believe it was launched in the town and brought up to altitude where it held station to observe the ash plume".

This patient was a perfect candidate for the intermediate care unit, a holding station for patients with no active medical issues who were awaiting discharge.

We watched them slip back into the turbulent river, ride the current then turn to hold station facing upstream, waiting for the river to deliver food.

When they go back to the holding station to get his wallet, he pleads with Kathy not to make a scene.

A kind of holding station for developing nerve cells, which eventually melds into the mature brain, the subplate zone becomes operational at about 17 weeks.

Yup, it's some kind of holding station for your soul, while you sort your emotional baggage out from the wreckage of your life.