Sentence examples for lives held from inspiring English sources

It was stressful work, with two lives held at gunpoint.

/ Private eye falls hard for her: / Two lives held in check.

Swift manages this patterning of motifs with exquisite economy, and the suggestion of lives held in check makes the book feel as English as marmalade.

Much of the existentialists' work is out of favour, their political leanings questioned, their personal lives held up as examples of how not to live.

Dance subgenres have notoriously short shelf lives, held to the whims of their audience's neophilia and the need for trends to keep mutating.

With this and a thousand similar anecdotes, Kathleen C. Winters, in "Anne Morrow Lindbergh: First Lady of the Air," shows why the Lindberghs all their lives held the pestiferous press in loathing; it did not all start with the kidnapping in 1932.

Most persons live their lives holding and moving between both these orientations.

Many sufferers manage to lead almost normal lives, holding down jobs, pursuing hobbies and raising children.

Relationship experts and those who study technology in people's lives hold divergent views on the topic.

According to the dream, San Franciscans are sophisticates whose lives hold full measures of such civilized pleasures as music, art, and good food.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said strikes would  "disrupt parents' lives, hold back children's education and damage the reputation of the profession".