Sentence examples for were kept back from inspiring English sources
Did you feel there were times you were kept back or personally discriminated against?
Some men tried to get into that boat, but were kept back.
The suitcase was subject to a controlled explosion by officers while commuters and locals were kept back by a police cordon.
A mass panic among Hamburg fans who were kept back in the stadium by police resulted in serious injuries when those at the back started pushing.
French tanks and aircraft were dispersed in largely defensive formation, while British aircraft were kept back in mainland Britain to prepare for the expected German air attack.
Some 2.5m copies of our poster were printed, but in the end they were kept back; "held in reserve, intended for use only in times of crisis or invasion", which happily never came.
"Delegates are kept back by political gridlock.
They'd been kept back in school, or had started school later than their classmates.
In the case of Ms. Higgins's Ursula, Sir Richard said, "the power is in knowing what is being kept back".
"Did he tell you he's being kept back a year at school?" "Oh... well," Stanton said.
