Examples of 'are held up' in a sentence
Meaning of "are held up"
are held up: Signifies being delayed, obstructed, or detained from progressing or moving forward, commonly used in the context of transportation, projects, or plans
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are held up
Occasionally buses are held up by highwaymen in remote areas.
Sometimes local running competitions are held up there.
But we are held up by this appalling red tape.
Those will be the ones that are held up.
Their lives are held up before us as examples of holiness.
These are the idols that are held up to us.
They are held up to the face to talk.
The kabuki dancers are held up in traffic.
Reefs are held up by a macroscopic skeletal framework.
The two loaves are held up together.
You are held up by that broken wood.
I am tired of the unjust standards that we as women are held up to.
The soldiers are held up in the back.
The result is that for the time my studies are held up.
Staff records are held up at the council.
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A few signs of the people on the roster are held up high.
The porches are held up by log posts.
I wonder where they are held up.
They are held up to ridicule in some cases.
Respectable people are held up to ridicule.
Hands are held up in a high guard to protect the face and the head.
I talk very fast and my pants are held up with wire.
They are held up by faith.
Just the legs are held up.
The trophies are held up on a base made from the same materials.
He called to apologize that his guys are held up at the checkpoint.
John and the woman are held up on the road when their machine breaks down.
Those that fit onto a door frame are held up by pressure.
And girls are held up to the beauty standards of Hollywood.
Telegrams are held up.
They are held up as exemplars of integrity, selfless service and patriotism.
There are two which are held up as being irredeemable.
She tries to explain about the earrings when they are held up by robbers.
The white boards are held up in order to share.
We defend these chronic behaviors and feelings if they are held up for discussion.
A group of survivors are held up in a building fighting off the undead.
My pension papers are held up.
Now they are held up somewhere.
We have got a local here who says our convicts are held up in some cabin.
Your pants are held up with string, no doubt.
All three feature key leaders whose actions are held up as models of imitation.
They are held up by guards, but manage to escape out of a window.
The men of Nineveh and the queen of the south are held up as examples.
The ears are held up high.
Dubious or false ' western ' government claims are held up as truth.
Medical supplies are held up at the border, ambulances are fired upon or.
Now I understand why so many windows are held up by sticks.
The walls are held up by eight behemoth-like demonic beast bones.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon and Jonathan Edwards are held up as heroes of the movement.
But here you are held up all over the place, you are checked everywhere.
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