held

Example Sentences

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They are held in New York awaiting trial.

From The Wall Street Journal

Thomson explained to the jury how family and staff had to wear gloves, masks, visors and aprons when they were with her mother but she said they "held her hand during her final breaths".

From BBC

At least, it would have done if she hadn’t held me so tightly, if her voice hadn’t broken as she whispered, ‘I promise everything will be fine,’ into my hair.

From Literature

She had peered over her shoulder, her face as wrinkled as last year’s potatoes, then held something up before she shoved it deep into the thatch.

From Literature

Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.

From Salon