Sentence examples for were either put from inspiring English sources

"Others were either put behind bars, died or were killed".

"Those questions that were not supported were either put in the closet or were certainly in the back rows".

During persecutions in 1801, 1839, and 1866, scholar-converts were either put to death or forced to apostatize; foreign missionaries were ferreted out and beheaded.

They were all planning to go to the airport to greet Mr. Sharif on Monday morning and were either put under guard at their residences, or arrested at police checkpoints on the way to the airport.

He said at the time that those he helped were either put up in 80 apartments rented by the archdiocese or received help to travel to other counties, mostly in Europe.

In one particularly rigorous month in 1687, more than three hundred people were put to death for violating the Laws of Compassion, and, in the course of Tsunayoshi's thirty-year reign, somewhere between sixty thousand and two hundred thousand people were either put to death or exiled for animal-welfare violations.

To many in the square, politicians were either putting their parochial interests first or proving unable to deliver a vision that could stem the worst crisis facing Egypt since Mr. Mubarak was toppled on Feb. 11.

Anyone who speaks out is either put in jail or killed".

And I just — it was either put up or shut up.

In New Jersey, state law gives the responsibility of animal control to local governments and mandates that stray dogs be held for seven days before they are either put up for adoption or killed.

Update: Hirsch did not talk to the owner but phoned several animal-welfare agencies and was either put on hold or shunted to voice mail; no human discussed the matter with him.