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How To Use holding In A Sentence

• If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
• On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
• He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
• The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
• To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times
• Reagan advanced on her, holding his gun steady.
• It was the least encumbered of all the tenures with obsolete and burdensome features, reminiscent of an older day, when land-holding involved public rights and duties as well as private rights of ownership.
• Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
• ‘This is evident in a number of markets where rents are falling, but yields are not only holding steady, but in most instances hardening,’ he said.
• I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court. A Royal Engagement