Sentence examples for was pinned between from inspiring English sources

Moments later, one worker was dragged under a train and died, and another was seriously injured when he was pinned between the train and a wall.

Then a problem arose: The truck was stuck at a tight corner, and the procession was pinned between the truck and a herd of water buffaloes.

It dragged her until she was pinned between the elevator and the wall, between the first and second floors, the police said.

A worker was killed yesterday at a construction site in the Bronx after he was pinned between two pieces of heavy equipment and then fell into an eight-foot-deep hole, the authorities said.

On Feb. 9, 2008, in a game between the Rangers and the Flyers in Philadelphia, the veteran linesman Pat Dapuzzo was pinned between two players at the blue line.

One Monterey Park firefighter who was also seriously injured, and who remained hospitalized Thursday, helped rescue a restaurant customer who was pinned between the truck and wreckage inside.

The stars are pinned between the leaves.

The two teen-agers got off, to try to control the motion, and were pinned between the bed's brass railing and the wall.

After a moment, he had his answer: "It's like so much of their history — they're pinned between more powerful surrounding powers, and they don't know how to leverage their own interests.

By Cynthia Zarin The New Yorker, August 15 , 1983P. 36 The stars are pinned between the leaves View Article Cynthia Zarin has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1983.

The justification of this ordering has proved somewhat elusive; qualitatively it is presumed that lone pairs, being attached only to a single centre, spread over a greater volume than bonding pairs, which are pinned between two attracting centres.