Sentence examples for kept open by from inspiring English sources

Roads kept open by the foreign troops are again dangerous.

"You have empty shells kept open by security guards and a couple of security lights.

The top job at the ministry of gender affairs has, conveniently, been kept open by her husband.

Clover said the fishery was kept open by necessity in order to fund the Ascension Island government.

The dense green blades arch high over the path, creating a tunnel kept open by animals that also dwarf us – generations of elephants and buffalo.

Other types include small basketlike or cagelike traps made of wood, netting, wire, or plastic pots and fyke nets (long bag-shaped nets kept open by a series of hoops).

We reached the ruins on a track kept open more by machete than footfall.

Liberalism in 19th-century Europe, and Islamism in the Arab world today, are like channels dug by one generation of activists and kept open, sometimes quietly, by future ones.

The Syrian Kurds note bitterly that Turkey has closed the crossing points into Kurdish-held territory, but has kept open those used by Isis.

With great self-satisfaction wine bars would spotlight their gadgets, like the Cruvinet, which supposedly kept open bottles fresh by enveloping them in nitrogen, hence avoiding oxidation.

The Mets avoided arbitration with Ordonez, but they kept open their options by signing him to a contract without a no-trade clause.