How To Use Hold back In A Sentence

Yet now he is dead, as dead as any ordinary pikeman who fought to hold back the Horde at the terminus of the Salmisti Bridge. Kingdoms of Light
All we ask is that you will hold back a tithe of the dues you pay to the abbey, and pay them instead to the town for murage and pavage. St. Peter's Fair
Secondly, do NOT think that you are going to hold back the ending because "I want the editor to be knocked endwise by the twist when s/he reads the book". Archive 2007-03-01
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
If one goes by the findings of behavioural studies, one would think twice before assigning baby-sitting functions for the telly or hold back from going ga ga over the toddler who lisps ad-lib.

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The boss couldn' t hold back his anger any longer.
She was brushing her bright blue hair, putting two pigtails in her hair and a heart clip to hold back loose strands.
They built dykes and dam to hold back the rising flood waters.
They built dykes and dam to hold back the rising flood waters.
Hard, I found, to hold back a tear, and the goose pimples were not from the cold because it was a hot day, even in the quire. Simon Hoggart's week: Keeping ahead of the rhinos
I know Scotia is annal about recording those numbers when you buy physical silver so why don't banks give you the serial numbers associated to certificates, or at least a list of all the bars they hold backing the certificates Archive 2008-11-30
On the other hand, procedures that are too regimented can hold back the development of a new venture.
The police cordon was unable to hold back the crowd.
Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
I can hold back on splurges when shopping anywhere, but the restrain only lasts so long, and if I'm shopping alone then it lasts hardly at all.
The villagers built banks of earth to hold back the flood waters.
Peers often hold back and may refer to the gifted person in derogatory terms.
Farmers apparently hold back produce in the hope that prices will rise.
And how do you hold back a sea of insults when it suddenly crashes towards you? Times, Sunday Times
FARGO, N.D. -- A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
One last thing: towel-drying the bath after use will hold back limescale deposits. Times, Sunday Times
No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
A ￡16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir.
The high cost of clinical trials and animal tests has forced Beecham to hold back products that looked promising in research.
Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
However, yesterday, the muddy white sheets were also on their way to the dump after being used as a stopgap measure to hold back the floods.
If you take a more assertive or aggressive stance, others may hold back from you. The Sun
She just managed to hold back her anger.
The bikers have started burning them down at night in a forlorn attempt to hold back the waves of progress that Phoenix is attracting with its golf courses.
Of those overcome by death and passing to another world, a father cannot hold back his son, nor relatives a relation.
One of them dumped a blooper in back of first base trying to hold back his swing. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
Then they will play Over The Ocean, three minutes 47 seconds of mesmeric, heartfelt sorrow, and the audience will bite its collective lip to hold back the tears.
Do you think that mixed ability classes hold back the better students?
A cynic might argue that drug companies hold back the release of drugs to keep prices high.
She said, ‘they should not hold back out of a fear they might be violating human rights’.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard -- who is running as the Democratic nominee to unseat the Republican governor in November -- didn't hold back in seizing upon the apparent "beheaded" bodies misstatement. Jan Brewer's 'Beheaded' Bodies Claim Disputed By Local Law Enforcement Agencies
It's important that you don't hold back any information, no matter how small you may think it is now.
Don't hold back on expressing concerns, clarifying misperceptions, or acknowledging gaps in your capabilities.
Punishment cannot hold back the swelling tides of the social chaos that cause this delinquency. Times, Sunday Times
The veg, which many find bitter, contains a compound found to hold back signs of ageing. The Sun
So in the classroom, in the coffee room, with a neighbor, or in opportunities to serve the church, we hold back, figuring that others can do it.
Anna stopped laughing abruptly but she really couldn't hold back a little smile at the batch of clichés she'd just walked into.
He didn't hold back about how he felt about police harassment and fame. The Sun
This is a rough draft, which means that I already know I didn't nail it, so please don't hold back if you think something's wrong!
The boss couldn' t hold back his anger any longer.
In addition to using these skeletal tetrahedral frames as geological armatures, to hold back the earth and facilitate access, they will also bore through the bedrock, drilling new passages and eroding caverns to dwarf the nave of St. Peter's, wherein they will lock into place as columns, arches and internal buttresses. Accessing the Wilderness, or: A Proposal for a National Park of Abandoned Gold Mines
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
'At least it was warm on my hot air ballooning expedition,’ he commented, not managing to hold back an amused smile, his dark eyes alive.
It was Mr Mahmood Farooqui who made suggestive (I would hold back the word 'insinuative' for now) comments about the enormous richness of Urdu belittling (read his texts carefully and you would realize what he is trying to do) Punjabi. Kafila
The distorted administration values and void institution settings are the dominant difficulties in administration reforms, which hold back the reforms' process in essence.
Couldn't hold back my tears, still strong smile.
One of them dumped a blooper in back of first base trying to hold back his swing. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
FARGO, N.D. -- They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that's spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to celebrate what appeared to be a successful defense against the swollen waterway. Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle
The police were unable to hold back the crowd.
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
Farmers apparently hold back produce in the hope that prices will rise.
They act on the brain to hold back the cough reflex.
Although it also makes me hold back, as I loved this new book for its very undecidability and lack of clear cut message. He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room
He had a mercurial temperament and was never one to hold back his views, even in the face of opposition.
No one can hold back the wheel of history.
If one goes by the findings of behavioural studies, one would think twice before assigning baby-sitting functions for the telly or hold back from going ga ga over the toddler who lisps ad-lib.
I am not proposing we hold back on the festive celebrations, far from it!
Couldn't hold back my tears, still strong smile.
hold back your anger
We both struggled to hold back the tears on stage as he received a prolonged standing ovation. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
Pehlya clasped a hand over her mouth to hold back a very unmaidenly oath.
(zygomaticus major,) and which I could not hold back from making a little movement on its own account. The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
Walls of dry-stacked Sonoma fieldstone hold back the slope and define the edge of the patio.
When a woman isn't into a guy or sees him as threatening, she'll hold back her girlish giggle, the researchers add.
There was a long pause as we all tried to hold back the giggles.
The com - Dam to be mission shall construct across Charles river between the across cities of Boston and Cambridge, a dam, at least sufficiently claries nver. high to hold back all tides and to maintain in the basin above the dam a substantially permanent water level not less than eight feet above Boston base. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Couldn't hold back my tears, still strong smile.
The veg, which many find bitter, contains a compound found to hold back signs of ageing. The Sun
A braided band of leather lies across her forehead to hold back her white, thick mane.
Like other Pescadero residents, willow-tree farmer Neil Curry lives in a low-lying area adjacent to the marsh, land diked generations ago to hold back the wetlands. Tiny Town Is Awash in Water Woes
If you take a more assertive or aggressive stance, others may hold back from you. The Sun
The boss couldn' t hold back his anger any longer.
Progress was steady but a wise strategist knew when to press, when to hold back. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Perhaps he will hold back, not least for fear of the international backlash such a violation of democracy would trigger.
Seems he's learned to hold back the tears and keep a stiff upper lip when political operatives spread scurrilous lies and outright falsehoods.
Punishment cannot hold back the swelling tides of the social chaos that cause this delinquency. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, law enforcement does have an effective role, but during the 2004 campaign when Kerry mentioned that both law enforcement and military approaches are necessary, I recall the congenitally arrogant Bush-Cheney team along my favorite bitch, Lynne Cheney barely able to hold back their laughter at such a ridiculous notion spun out by someone who obviously knows nothing of fighting terra. Think Progress » Bush Dismisses Generals’ Concerns: ‘I Hear People Say, Well, Civil War This, Civil War That’
We are determined that nothing should hold back the peace talks.
Couldn't hold back my tears, still strong smile.
If one goes by the findings of behavioural studies, one would think twice before assigning baby-sitting functions for the telly or hold back from going ga ga over the toddler who lisps ad-lib.
When the memories came flooding back she only just managed to hold back an onslaught of tears.
The Blues chief also had to hold back some of his players during the chaotic scenes that followed. The Sun
We can make some progress, but all we can do is hold back the forest destruction.
No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
It took all of me to hold back the tears when my dad told me to find him and bring him back Goldylockz22 Diary Entry
She felt her arms, stronger than before from the sword practice with Doriel, gracefully hold back the old lecher who was now fascinated by her bustline.
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
I heard my dad struggle with the pronunciation, trying to add on an Italian accent along with the words and couldn't hold back a giggle.
“We have to call Trisha, Drew,” Luz said, her chin quivering with the effort to hold back her tears while he cried for both of them. The Glory Game
There had been a great burden on me all my life, to hold back, to fear death, to fear pain.
And how do you hold back a sea of insults when it suddenly crashes towards you? Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
Brian picked him up, unable to hold back from what he had rehearsed with almost as much feeling as clasping Pauline. THE OPEN DOOR
No one can hold back the wheel of history.
FARGO, N.D. - A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare. FOXNews.com
Punishment cannot hold back the swelling tides of the social chaos that cause this delinquency. Times, Sunday Times
Try as he might, he could not hold back the contempt he felt as he mustered a reply.
Defense attorney Linda Kennedy Baden didn ` t hold back in her criticism of the local and what she called the tabloid media on NBC ` s "Today Show" this morning. CNN Transcript May 4, 2009
Oscar co-producer Bill Mechanic urged the stars to hold back their emotions once they reach the coveted podium, because teary-eyed thanks are "the single most-hated thing on the show.
If people are penny-pinching or petty-minded this week, naturally you won't hold back on letting them know it.
You must try to hold back German attack.
Capture the flag; the blues struggle to hold back the onslaught of the attacking yellows.
The veg, which many find bitter, contains a compound found to hold back signs of ageing. The Sun
Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
We both struggled to hold back the tears on stage as he received a prolonged standing ovation. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
Yesterday, Cassie's distraught grandmother, Elizabeth Chery, fought to hold back the tears as she lamented his loss.
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
The aim is to avoid cuts in teaching or research that might hold back the contribution of universities to the economic recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Like all the fire signs, Leos are idealistic and don't hold back from expressing their passion.
But frequently the asthma sufferer learned to hold back both feelings because neither are acceptable to the family.
Say you either tackle the issues which are making her hold back or call it a day. The Sun
Guards had to be assigned to hold back the crowds that thronged to watch and shout insults at the condemned. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
It was best described as a rictus – a mug somewhere between a frozen formal grin and someone trying to hold back on saying, “oh shit oh dear …”. Think Progress » McCain seen mouthing ‘blame it on Bush’ when Obama outlines the problems he inherited.
A ￡16.1m dam will hold back a 2.6-mile-long artificial lake to be known as the Roadford Reservoir.
And how do you hold back a sea of insults when it suddenly crashes towards you? Times, Sunday Times
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
The dam was not strong enough to hold back the flood waters.
If you take a more assertive or aggressive stance, others may hold back from you. The Sun
(_zygomaticus major_,) and which I could not hold back from making a little movement on its own account. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
Perhaps he will hold back, not least for fear of the international backlash such a violation of democracy would trigger.
She closed her eyes tightly in a vain attempt to hold back the tears.
That final battle on the catwalk is incredibly intense because Vader's finally realized that he can't hold back with Luke; he has to go almost full-out. Once Again, With Depressing Regularity, I Bow To Mike Sterling
In an ideal world one would hold back the line until she was actually crying. Times, Sunday Times
No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
Guards ignored the call or mustered in battalions more often seen to shield demonstrators from army regulars than to hold back the unruly.
He will be struggling to hold back the waterworks when the film goes up for seven awards at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
He broke out into a storm of rage with the gray-haired butler, who had carried him pickapack in his infancy, because the faithful retainer tried to hold back certain newspapers which contained dark allusions to the Mellish mystery. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
If you take a more assertive or aggressive stance, others may hold back from you. The Sun
Those estate owners who could be affected by a community or crofting bid have tended to hold back to see what will happen.
Perhaps he will hold back, not least for fear of the international backlash such a violation of democracy would trigger.
The 28-year-old college dropout fiercely defends his right to spam, arguing that outdated "netiquette" shouldn't hold back any form of free enterprise in cyberspace. King Of 'Spam' And Proud Of It
Clark darts a wary look at the detective, perhaps noticing the sarcasm, and Mike privately reminds himself to hold back a little.
Then again, since it is the function and duty of a magazine to report newsworthy happenings as fully as possible, they cannot hold back some information because some fusspots might think that it is not in the public interest.
Vacancies at unlet developments could hold back cashflow, but that risk is outweighed by the promise of its development pipeline. Times, Sunday Times
People could not hold back their tears as women got together to share their touching personal experiences.
Duncan Smith, a long-term proponent of the benefits of marriage to prevent social problems, pressed the case in February for promoting marriage to ward off family breakdown when he cited research indicating that as many as 90% of young people aspire to marry, but suggesting that some hold back for financial reasons. Iain Duncan Smith thinktank laments Tory compromises over family policies
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
He could see the way her jaw clenched and unclenched as she fought to hold back whatever words had risen in her throat.
Two lines of mounted police were forced to hold back the mainly pro-hunting protest from the gates of Parliament as scuffles broke out in Parliament Square.
The president realized he could not hold back the tide of change, and resigned.
Belief in a thousand hells and heavens will not lift the apathetic out of apathy or hold back the passionate from passion; while a newly planted and ungalled community, in blessed forgetfulness of rewards or punishments, of cosmic needs or celestial sanctions, will know how to live cheerily and virtuously for life's own sake, putting to shame those thin vaticinations. The Life of Reason
Couldn't hold back my tears, still strong smile.
Sometimes you have to smile and act like everything is okay.hold back the tears and walk away.
Maybe even Jason Kenney casts a lonely glance at his untouched lap and tries to hold back a sob before deleting the ads promising to enlargen his little winkie. Selling Your Privacy By The Pound
Parliamentarians should be mindful of this and take the lead rather than hold back and be over-run by the process.
But I am as little disposed to unsettle the reader's faith in the Virgilian tradition, as to part with my own; and I therefore uncandidly hold back the names of the authorities cited. Italian Journeys
Is there a legitimate scientist in the world who doubts that tobacco smoke kills people, that air pollution kills people, that rising sea levels expose more sea water to sunlight that evaporates the water that affects the wind and temperature that makes the hurricanes that top the levees that hold back the lake that, when un-leveed, kills people? Davis Sweet: Stop the Presses! A Right-Winger Lies!
The boss couldn' t hold back his anger any longer.
Most will hold back for a while until they feel that you are really cinsear and not just another dilatant passing thru. Ok, I have read this thing for over a year..............I'm coming anyway!
So those who are attached to the cautious approach will hold back nervously rather than boldly promote growth.
He could drink as much as the next man, but there was still something about him that seemed to hold back as the evening developed into the usual matey banter about football rivalries.
Do you think that mixed ability classes hold back the better students?
Punishment cannot hold back the swelling tides of the social chaos that cause this delinquency. Times, Sunday Times
The dam was not strong enough to hold back the flood waters.
Hold back on the Aeron chairs and mongo Mac computers until more cash is flowing in than out -- and then add plenty of extra cushion. The 20 Most Important Questions In Business
I'm trying to hold back a whole raft of feelings, but they keep bobbing and pitching to the surface, threatening to break loose and shoot the rapids once and for all.
Montgomery County Planning Manager Joe Klosterman said that since the 1980s, any time a nonpermeable surface such as a roof, a road or a parking lot is built, some kind of system must be built to hold back stormwater so the site doesn't drain any faster than when it was in a natural state. Daytondailynews.com - News
The high cost of clinical trials and animal tests has forced Beecham to hold back products that looked promising in research.
If it were a lynchet there would be evidence of a structure to hold back the soil.
If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
Guards had to be assigned to hold back the crowds that thronged to watch and shout insults at the condemned. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
Even those banks that are in good shape may want to hold back amid uncertainty over capital-adequacy requirements and accounting rules for off-balance-sheet assets.
If you take a more assertive or aggressive stance, others may hold back from you. The Sun
Andra had to literally bite her tongue to hold back the sharp retort quickly forming there.

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