11.   After being fed and watered, the animal walked to the scales, passed the weight test and ambled on to its assigned holding pen.

12.   But too often in the past, special schools became holding pens for troubled youngsters whose deeper problems were ignored.

13.   From their holding pen, these six-month-old birds see the same panorama that greeted their ancestors before the last Ice Age.

14.   He drove through a sea of kids without establishing eye contact, leaving several holding pens with confused looks on their faces.

15.   He then advertised this path to Texas ranchers, persuading them to drive their cattle to Kansas and his holding pens.

16.   Hour after hour, the door to the holding pens behind the courtroom bangs open and shut.

17.   In an unprecedented use of the base, Guantanamo will effectively serve as a holding pen for prisoners who may face a trial before a military tribunal.

18.   It is more of a holding pen than a prison, a place where the passage of time is marked only by the rising and setting sun.

19.   Its bells were carted off, and the vacant building became a holding pen for circus lions.

20.   Money market funds have also been used by investors as a holding pen for money going into stock and bond funds, or as a haven in market upheavals.