Sentence examples for lightly held from inspiring English sources
Our tactic was "leapfrogging," or bypassing an enemy-held island to land troops on another, more lightly held island.
These superstitions are not lightly held.
That means looking for places where sovereignty is lightly held and rarely contested, like rural communities.
The plan was for Burnside's troops to move south from nearby Falmouth to seize lightly held Fredericksburg and its railroad.
But the Revel crab cakes, served on a spicy red-lentil salad, are indeed first rate: flavorful, meaty and lightly held together.
I'm told that my grandfather would snooze in his home office chair, waking up when his lightly held keys hit the floor.
Now regard another extreme of Piero's range: "Madonna and Child with a Dove" (circa 1490-1500) shows a lovely but rather ordinary young woman in rustic dress, lightly holding a naked, squirming Baby Jesus.
Bryson's great skill is that of lightly holding the reader's hand throughout; building up such trust that topics as recondite as atomic weights, relativity and particle physics are shorn of their terrors.
The tilt of Sinatra's hat, on the cover of the LP, and the position of his hands (one lightly holding a woman's, the other motioning with jerked thumb, as if a trip to Capri were as swift and painless as hitching a ride) inform us that, thanks to airplanes, the world is now his, and ours, for the asking.
It is also a maxim of constitutional law that a legislature is presumed to have acted within constitutional limits, upon full knowledge of the facts, and with the purpose of promoting the interests of the people as a whole, and courts will not lightly hold that an act duly passed by the legislature was one in the enactment of which it has transcended its power.
For earthquakes, they should know to hide under a desk or table — and that if there isn't one and they are alone in their bedrooms, they should get under the covers and lightly hold pillows over their heads to protect themselves from falling objects.
