held up

A diverse crowd held up signs that read, “Black Lives Matter” and “Am I Next?”

Amanda came home to largely welcoming American arms, her case held up as an example of hostility to Americans abroad.

They are two hours late to our meeting, held up by fighting on the road.

The piece of metal was held up to the place in the structure where the window had been covered over.

All this data is a mirror held up to ourselves, and in a way, it's rather comforting.

When it was too late, I could think of half a dozen ways we might have avoided getting held up.

Those soaring columns held up the very sky, and their foundations made the earth itself swing true.

First we attack with the naval half and are held up—next we attack with the army half and are held up.

The poor clerk held up his hands, shook them piteously, sighed, and went his way again.

A tall Brother approached the Englishman; but Kalkmann held up his hand.