Sentence examples for were cornered from inspiring English sources

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were cornered

noun

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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The teenagers were cornered by members of the mosque, who held them for the police.

They were cornered and vastly outnumbered, but unlike the men of 1879 they were unable to defend themselves.

"The Serbs were cornered and they behaved much better than else would have behaved if cornered," Karadzic said.

Outside the rally venue in Chicago, violence flared as Trump supporters were cornered in a parking garage.

The failure to nab Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, to let them escape from Tora Bora where they were cornered, was a spectacular failure.

The men may still have been alive when an officer from one of the UK's elite fighting units, who was nearby, was told they were cornered, but chose not to offer assistance because it was too dangerous.

Only a few months earlier, members of the United Auto Workers union were cornered by members of Congress "shocked" at their healthcare plans and $20-per-hour 20-per-hour 20-per-hourd to renegotiate their contractsalaries

A United Nations panel reported last year that tens of thousands of people died near the end of the 26-year war with the Tamil separatists, many as a result of government shelling of a sliver of the country where the rebels were cornered but which was also crowded with civilians.

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