Sentence examples for were briefly signed from inspiring English sources

They're not quite sure how it came together, but after being involved in high-school and college theatre, they were briefly signed to an agency.

Reynolds and his brother were briefly signed to a record label as an electronic-music duo, and along with a friend, he silkscreens and sells a line of T-shirts.

He moved to Los Angeles when he was seventeen, and was briefly signed to Motown.

As an artists-and-repertory executive, Mr. DeVito brought Mr. Dylan back to his longtime label, Columbia, in the mid-1970s after he had been briefly signed to Asylum Records.

Having acted in British films from 1930, he was briefly signed by Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures in 1931, but he failed to make much of an impression at this early date.

The fact that Ms. Owen, who was briefly signed to Capitol Records, then dropped in a management shake-up, has had to go it alone is a discouraging sign that the record industry, which 20 years ago would have snapped her up and made her a star, is in shambles.

On Thursday, 3 Syrians were briefly detained and forced to sign pledges not to participate in future protests, after they protested, along with 12 others, against corruption and high cellphone costs.

They were, briefly, humming.

Four ushers were briefly hospitalized.

And we were briefly right.

Parliamentary proceedings were briefly suspended.