Sentence examples for were holding in from inspiring English sources

He then stopped to see the battalion commander in charge of the assault troops who were holding in place as the "anvil".

Soon after our meeting, AQIM said that it had executed one of the six French hostages its forces were holding in North Africa.

Davis checked up on Chaimu's progress via email and was delighted, when she offered to help with a fundraiser the Sheldricks were holding in New York, to realise they had no idea who she was.

In a brazen "exit scam", the site's anonymous administrators apparently made off with up to $15m in Bitcoin payments that they were holding in escrow.A few days later, users reported that Agora, the next-biggest drug-peddling site, was inaccessible.

In Mushin, several members of the Oodua People's Congress, a Yoruba gang, displayed for me a suspected motorcycle thief whom they had caught the night before and were holding in a dingy back room of their clubhouse: he was chained at the hands and feet, and bleeding from the head.

His hair is jet-black and very straight, and his face is composed of strong fine lines, clean and clear and exquisite like his pink-and-white skin; his eyebrows are as well-shaped as a woman's, his curved lips pressed shut as if he were holding in important news.

Services were held in Florida.

Services were held in NJ.

Funeral services were held in Florida Sunday.

The tournaments were held in Ayr, Scotland.

Funeral services were held in Miami.