Sentence examples for stuck holding from inspiring English sources

That will leave SIVs stuck holding their most toxic investments.

It is raining soup, and we are stuck holding a fork.

After all, in the current crisis, many banks got stuck holding too many risky mortgage bonds.

Another mitigating factor was that few of Alliance's clients were stuck holding all five of the stocks.

Eventually it was given the Latin name Morbus gallicus, as in Gaul, so the French were stuck holding the linguistic buck.

This practice is rare, given how many companies did this during the boom and got stuck holding houses that have plummeted in value.

Normal participants were studied in a typical flanker experiment (see figure 1) in three conditions (stick between the teeth: "smile", stick held with the upper lip: "no smile", control "no stick").

"I did have an idea that involved people with sticks holding it up, walking behind her.

There was nothing aboveground but a few sticks holding up grass mats".

To make textiles, yarn had to be spun; the earliest apparatus for this work consisted of a spindle and a distaff (a forked stick holding the unspun fibres).

One out of six sticks holding the chips was wasted because of leaks in the PMMA envelope that caused radioactive water to get in contact with the chips.