Sentence examples for pinned- from inspiring English sources

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A poster pinned up nearby advertises a recent public meeting where worried residents were addressed by Network Rail representatives.

There was a time in 2007, in between Chris Kyle's deployments, when half my platoon was trapped behind a house while two Iraqi insurgent machine gunners pinned us down.

Palace, who had to compensate for the early loss of Kagisho Dikgacoi to injury, had pinned their opponents back for long spells of the second half.

Carlo Ancelotti's men pinned them back for long spells and Liverpool might have been in for a messy evening if Simon Mignolet had let in one of the early attempts from James Rodríguez and Ronaldo.

"Warner may just be the one who gets pinned by someone in retaliation.

But Delaney also wittily pinned down the idea of a writer insulated from reality by fame and success.

He made up sentences that helped explain to him, and therefore others in his dire, inhibiting situation, the bottled-up the pain he felt at being underestimated, pinned down, ignored, driven into the thieving, violence and ganged-up mischief that confirms all mercilessly applied stereotypes.

Last weekend, Hyde attended one of the band's gigs at London's Alexandra Palace, and described the experience on his blog: "Wild energy, abandoned to the beat, pinned to the stage with light," he wrote.

Get four or five of us together, and between us there will not be a single drama series, comedy show, feature film or advert that we will not once have pinned our hopes to, or waited in frustration for the interview that never came.

Labour's hopes of resistance are pinned on the "ground war".

His love of gunning for the media eventually resulted in the destruction of CNBC's honking goon Jim Cramer, somehow pinned as the figurehead of the 2008 financial crisis.

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