Example Sentences

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As Khomeini’s acolytes took control, the quest for strictly virtuous behavior meant women were forced to cover their hair, lovers’ hands to go unheld in public and movie theaters to shutter.

From Time • Aug. 30, 2016

But so long as Cimon’s influence prevailed the ideal of “peace at home and the complete humiliation of Persia” was steadily unheld.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

There was a horse and buggy in the lane, very near the gate—the horse unheld, rearing and squealing, but making no attempt to run away as might have been expected.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Morford, Henry

You resent my holding the tether longer, but you are too young yet to fly unheld.

From The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap by Wood, Stanley L.