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Example sentences for: hold

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Public media companies such as Time Warner (or, for that matter, Microsoft) can entice and hold journalists with stock options.
Fritz Hollings cannot hold his seat--if a powerful, intelligent, pork-barreling, 32 year incumbent, supported by the full force and bankroll of the national Democratic Party and opposed by a little-known challenger, cannot win--then the Democratic Party might as well fold and flee North.
In the background one can just make out the binoculars of an eager male viewer and the stripe on the trousers of an erect soldier, but all our attention gravitates toward the innocent isolation of these two performers, one of whom has gathered as many oranges, thrown as tokens from the appreciative crowd, as her small arms can hold.
"We who are currently privileged to hold public office have ourselves to blame," he laments in his stump speech.
So why did the Fabius government agree to hold off?