Sentence examples for was kept like from inspiring English sources

Beaten, banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to school or making friends, his daughter described herself as a "shadow woman" who was kept like a "caged bird".

When she asked about him, she was horrified to be told that he was kept like that permanently: it was the only thing the prison could do to stop him castrating himself.

"She was living in as a domestic [worker]…but says the pay has stopped…Complains she was kept "like a slave"…I will alert police to her story…will clarify whether she was trafficked into UK".

Animals should not be kept like this, let alone people.

Should it ever have been kept like that?

You're not asked to fill up the screen with idiosyncrasies, you're kept like that.

'We were kept like animals,' Mohammed Sadiq said when he arrived back in Kabul last Tuesday.

Avoid making promises that cannot be kept, like, "Surely you'll feel better tomorrow".

So far, HP's researchers have demonstrated that memory can be kept like this for four months.

Today, many are kept like rats in small cages, a long way from the chimp heyday of the 1960's when a fuzzy ape named Ham rocketed into space.

BEIJING — Though these things are kept like state secrets, many expect that China's most popular Olympic champion, the hurdler Liu Xiang, will play a visible role in Friday's opening to the Beijing Games.