Sentence examples for were held like from inspiring English sources

The work's floor patterns had the two dancers traveling now parallel, now in mirror patterns, sometimes breaking for their own question-and-answer passages; some gestures resembled speech, others were held like statuary.

He is awaiting trial and is being held, like Kaliebe, at the Metropolitan Detention Center.

But tablets beg not only to be carried like magazines but to be held like them, too.

Take me to the big one, that I may be held like a pip.

Though the guards said the inmates were being held like this "temporarily" because of a planned jailbreak, they had been there for four days.

Though the event has been well-received in some countries where it has been held, like Japan, Taiwan and Venezuela, it has fallen under the radar elsewhere — specifically, in the United States.

One of them leaves to float on the waves; at the meeting point between water and sky, she is "held like a prayer between two hands pressed together".

Mr. Abdel Rahman said the Palestinians finally agreed that Mr. Saadat and Mr. Shubaki would be held, like the others, but only until they can be tried.

The city where 10 of the buildings are Unesco-listed is held like a delicate morsel between the chopsticks of the Mekong and Khan rivers.

If someone is held like that in prison for over a year, of course it takes its toll on you; anxiety and depression creep in.

But the Wii's motion-sensing remote can be held like a golf club and swung through the air, causing your on-screen counterpart to swing in tandem.