pinned down

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  • And unlike the smoothly cool Barack Obama, Sharpton has been frequently pinned down in a wrestling match with the Teleprompter.

  • Huddled behind a wall and a few cars, the demonstrators found themselves pinned down.

  • He held up his hand, which was bleeding from the fact of his having seized hold of the blade which had pinned down his hilt.

    Crown and Sceptre | George Manville Fenn
  • "I know it," said Jarrow, uncomfortably aware of being pinned down to definite information.

    Isle o' Dreams | Frederick F. Moore
  • Why, you did, and covered him afterwards with your shield all the while he was pinned down by his dead charger.

    Marcus: the Young Centurion | George Manville Fenn
  • I came up out of the blackness just enough to know that I was no longer pinned down by a couple of tons of wrecked automobile.

    Highways in Hiding | George Oliver Smith
  • He selected the hand pinned down by Fleming, perhaps because he was not sure that he could trust 203 Gallagher.

    The Pirate of Panama | William MacLeod Raine

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