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Example sentences for: holding

How can you use “holding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A nation holds its breath (well, except for those holding others at gunpoint).
loyal to my own music for fifty years though I detested snare drums and tap dancing, just as I do those singers now who hold their left fists in the air while holding the microphone
Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are holding emergency hearings about the new El Niño, and the media are covering it obsessively.
The piece does not speculate on what's holding the IRA back: internal dissent, desire to alter the details of the signed agreement, or sheer bad faith.
--Holding a Secret in Toronto