Sentence examples for we were cornered from inspiring English sources

WE were cornered last week by a few dozen members of the Mahdi Army, the violent and unpredictable militiamen loyal to the rebel Shiite Muslim cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

A year we were cornered into expressing ourselves in our most inventive and defiant ways yet.

"Then we were cornered by Senator Bob Dole, the Republican national chairman.

We were eventually let go at about 10.30pm, but not before we were cornered in a massive queue and some fucking crusty started playing Pendulum.

We've all contemplated what we would do if we were cornered by the police while committing a crime: run for it, blow our brains out, hang our head and submit quietly.

"Day after day we are cornered into an unrelenting competition that smothers and suffocates us," the council said.

"Day after day we are cornered into an unrelenting competition that smothers and suffocates us," the student council wrote at the time.

At Organización Soriana, we're cornered in the spirits section by giggling saleswomen asking if they can help us pick out a tequila.

Next to the portaloos we're cornered by a younger raver waxing lyrical about hardcore.

We can't be free if we've been cornered in a preconceived set of roles.

We've been cornered.