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Example sentences for: holds

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

Did he whip out the little white plastic thing that holds the floss, or was he using one of those ready-to-go saw instruments that look like a cello bow for a doll house?
The conventional view, pioneered by Susumu Ohno, holds that a gene duplication produces two functionally redundant, paralogous genes and thereby frees one of them from selective constraints.
operator holds for use for the unit for that calendar year shall be liable for the payment of an excess emissions penalty, except where such emissions were authorized pursuant to section 110(f).
It carries cargo in "holds."
Up in Hokkaido, Sapporo holds its internationally popular Snow Festival (during the first or second week of February).