Sentence examples for were rounding up from inspiring English sources

The attack came as security forces were rounding up opposition activists in the town.

Runners with clip-boards were rounding up a bus-load of enthusiastic extras for costume fittings.

AP reported police were rounding up members of the city's small Uighur community, thought to number at most several dozen, for questioning about the attack.

Tells how they lived during their stay on Guam and how they avoided capture by various U.S. military patrols who were rounding up stragglers.

At the same time, the authorities were rounding up, testing and treating prostitutes, often too late for themselves or the wives.

A source said – in a report that cannot be independently verified – that Tuareg rebels in northern strongholds were rounding up foreigners and taking them to the airport.

Workers were rounded up.

The majority were rounded up or exterminated.

Suspected ringleaders were rounded up and tortured.

Last year, 100 geese were rounded up there.

Guests were rounded up and blood-tested.