3 sentences with “pinned”

When Tiberius died, to the relief of the Roman populace, great hopes were pinned on his heir.

Napoleon pursued the Russian army eastwards, fighting two actual battles (the second of which, the Battle of Borodino in August 1812, was extremely bloody), but never pinned down the Russians or received the Tsar's anticipated negotiations for surrender.

An infamous incident occurred in late May, when more than 300,000 British and French troops retreating from the Germans were pinned down on the English Channel coast near the French town of Dunkirk. There, a flotilla of navy and fishing vessels managed to evacuate them back to England while the British Royal Air Force held off the opposing German Luftwaffe (air force).