Sentence examples for a hold up from inspiring English sources

Once he did a party where he played as if there was a hold up and everyone was surrounded [laughing] and people were getting frightened.

That has thrown the franchise process into disarray with delays to the letting of new deals and consequently a hold up in investment plans.

In the book, Charley is an inner-city art teacher and widower (her husband got shot in a hold up from refusing to give up his stuff) drowned in student loans.

Officials hope the bill will make it through all its stages by February or March, but point out that even if there is a hold up, the council elections can go ahead, in any case, in May.

However, the biker guy wants Rust to help with a hold up before he will give over this information.

Meanwhile, Romney wants the private sector to "create jobs" but it's weird that there's a hold up, considering the private sector has been crazily profitable.

Moral results of a hold-up.

"He's a hold-up horse so he comes from behind.

Waiter in a quick lunch tells about a hold-up.

The New Yorker, August 13 , 1927P. 54 Moral results of a hold-up.

The clerk goes to find a substitute bottle and is killed during a hold-up attempt.