Sentence examples for is held still from inspiring English sources

Everything is held still and in perfect equipoise – the sky above, the river below, the bridge a pale platonic ideal over the silver water.

During the clamping phase, the position of the paddle is fixed so that the breast is held still between the paddle and the detector.

Its camera is just O.K.— it's a 5-megapixel job with decent color and clarity, as long as the subject is holding still.

She was still wonderful: expressive, every gesture laden with melancholy; extraordinary, too, when her body was held still.

I wished time could be held still so I could be certain I had fully captured every sight.

But Ag kicked the shearers out of Mr. Sepe's hand, and Algonquin's legs had to be held still.

If the tip and surface were held still, the extra flow might be detectable.

The monkeys' heads were held still, so they had to find the dot by moving only their eyes.

Through experimentation, he deduced that the existing turntable design failed because the cartridge was not being held still wherever the groove went.

To encourage the fish to bite, the boats had to be held still by their rowers, which required great skill in the Firth's unpredictable currents.

Limb movement was controlled by the experimenter and was held still or passively moved during the various recording protocol segments.