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wait before acting
the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment -
resist and fight to a standoff
Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off
How To Use hold off In A Sentence
- If that is too abstract an observation then there is the simpler truth of politics: Britain is a middle class country and all parties now hold office on the sufferance of the bourgeoisie.
- North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
- The politicians, both those who hold office and others who aspire to displace them, are yet to show such mettle.
- Even Alexander Hamilton, a prominent fellow Federalist, ripped into Adams, saying his defects of character made him unfit to hold office.
- The skirt barely covered my rear but the sleeves were choirgirl wrist-length and the top had a prim little mandarin collar that would convince any vamp to hold off on his neck lunge until the after-dinner mints. Dancing with Werewolves
- First-time jugglers are advised to hold off on the chain saws.
- But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds 'electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century. Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
- I saw their escorts, some of them guards, some of them officials, all around them to hold off the press of the crowd.
- Javid Milton scored from a yard out on fourth down to make it 24-14, but the Leathernecks couldn't hold off the Razorbacks much longer. USATODAY.com
- If you can hold off eating your Halloween candy until the following summer, as I do, you're eating virtually calorie-free candy. Maggie Lamond Simone: Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain the Smart Way: Rationalization