"How many of them were being held motionless before you?"
Held motionless by wonder, she stood looking at him, taking this moment, not in the name of the present, but as a salute to their past.
In some systems, the mass is held nearly motionless relative to the frame by an electronic negative feedback loop.
At the center of its web was a beady mouth, held motionless.
He stopped, the sword again held motionless before him.
She froze, held motionless by the promise of his tone, the temptation contained in that single word.
Dishes were already on the table, but they were held motionless by more of the mechanical hands.
But she was held motionless by something she could not control.
He was held motionless by something alien to his child's nature.
The air seemed like a hot, thin soup, held motionless by the dense growth.