Sentence examples for held up at work from inspiring English sources

She would have come to Pierre's side sooner but was held up at work.

She and her husband were going to decide whether or not to find out the sex of their baby today, but her husband has been held up at work and she doesn't know what to do.

Medical supplies, including vaccines, have been held up at checkpoints, and vital work on repairing water pipelines has been delayed.

(Then the work got held up at customs near its home in Brazil, and has not made the trip to Washington).

She remembers the Christmas morning Vince got held up at the airport, where he had worked the Christmas Eve midnight shift.

These could tow ten keels, carrying 700 tons, but were held up at locks, as the keels had to be worked through one at a time.

Ken and Mike were among several series regulars held up at gunpoint in the soap's local supermarket, where Ken had been working as a trolley pusher.

"I was held up at gunpoint twice.

His photograph was held up at anti-government demonstrations.

"The first year, I was held up at gunpoint.

Not sure how these types of work would actually hold up at a Christie's or Sotheby's Auction.