hold the line

How To Use hold the line In A Sentence

• Can you hold the line, please?
• The Evening Press tried to get through to the service, but, after being told to hold the line, had to wait for three minutes before getting any reply.
• Please hold the line. I'm trying to connect you.
• Oh hello Stephanie, can you hold the line a moment and I'll go and find him.
• Can you hold the line, please?
• Its forces of freedom - the press and the law - emerged with some honour from the apartheid era and are fighting to hold the line. Times, Sunday Times
• Operator: I'm trying to connect you. Hold the line, please.
• Neither side in the debate over tuition fees is able to hold the line - because neither side has anything of substance to hold the line on, or really believes in what they are saying.
• Can you hold the line, please?
• The shift back into discounting mode is an about-face from the previous holiday season and earlier this year, when lean inventories allowed retailers to hold the line on prices. Retailers' Holiday Hinges on Discounts