You'll be needed to point out this boy Jacques who is being held a prisoner, you say.
Mr. Anerley has spoken to me about you," said Annie Brunel; and Dove was conscious that the dark-haired girl before her knew her secret.
In the end, however, the matter dropped into oblivion, and Harry Ormond was no more thought of.
The decks often were not lashed into place, being held only by the curling of the edges of the bark sheets.
After the chines and floor are fitted to the keelson, the frames at the thwarts are made and set up at the desired flare and height, being held in place by temporary spreaders lashed or braced.
In some northwestern bark canoes there was no sheathing; these used a batten system somewhat like that in the Eskimo kayak, except that in the bark canoes the battens were not lashed to the ribs, being held in place only by pressure.
Usually the ceremonies are performed before the village shrine, but, at times of festival, they are performed before the God, in honour of whom the festival is being held.
On the Monday, cots corresponding in number to that of the deceased whose dry funeral is being held, are taken to the thavachivadam, and the fragments of skulls are laid thereon.
Each village on the Shevaroys has its own headman, an honorary appointment, carrying with it the privilege of an extra share of the good things, when a feast is being held.
You mean to say," Hamel asked, "that you seriously believe that a conference is on the point of being held at which France and Russia are to be invited to consider suggestions like this?
The part A lifts up by a joint, and the metal to be swaged is placed between the dies, as shown in the figures; the tail b being held in the jaws of a vice, while the shear-shaped hammer rests upon it.
The screw rods t t pass through two tapped holes in the bar, marked with b c at its upper end; their heads r r being held by the shoulders o o.
The herb was never brought to table of old, being held sacred to oblivion and the defunct.
When Norwood, in Surrey, was really a forest the Mistletoe grew there on the oak, and, being held as medicinal, it was abstracted for apothecaries in London.
The seed of Quinces tempered with water doth make a mucilage, or a thing like jelly which, being held in the mouth is marvellous good to take away the roughness of the tongue in hot burning fevers.
This type of holder is so arranged that the reamer, instead of being held rigidly, is allowed a slight free or floating movement so that it can follow a hole which has been bored true, without restraint.
The tools, instead of being held by shanks inserted in holes in the turret, are designed so that they can be clamped firmly onto the low circular turret plate.
The stop gages on some machines, instead of being held in the turret, are attached to a swinging arm or bracket that is fastened to the turret slide and is swung up in line with the spindle when the stock is fed forward.
Anti-machine Senators found their pet bills being held up in Assembly Committees.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable ofbeing held by tenants.
Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being held" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
