holding

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.
• Company is also engaged in production of downstream products from polyurethane-coated yarn, while equity participation, or holding a number of real estate companies, food and beverage companies.
• It may also give other associations who are holding their fire at the minute out of party loyalty, the push to declare for the DUP.
• I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
• 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.