Sentence examples for were gathered up from inspiring English sources

After the model was destroyed, its fragments were gathered up and deposited in a Perspex cube.

Human and animal droppings were gathered up and spread on fields as fertiliser.

"North -- the word had amplitude now, as if all possible destinations and endings were gathered up in it.

As a novelist, Wharton liked to write in bed in the mornings, letting completed pages fall to the floor; after they were gathered up, Bahlmann typed them.

The families who had gathered to celebrate Columbia's return to Florida were gathered up and whisked away to be confronted with the terrible news.

In the last few years, the brand names of private money management -- Soros, Robertson, Meriwether -- were gathered up like twigs for kindling.

They are being gathered up by the police authorities.

And, of course, they cannot actually be gathered up and stored away.

Some of the assets are self-contained, but they must be gathered up and transferred.

The medieval loss of Dunwich (bells still ringing), is gathered up into this future catastrophe.

We carry them to the rail, where they are gathered up and thrown overboard.