Sentence examples for basically hold from inspiring English sources

"These things basically hold up your car," Mr. Kilgore said.

But then we were able to get that and basically hold on to the ball".

But a long time ago somebody--I wouldn't be surprised if it were a Phoenician tin merchant in the first millennium B.C.--realized that a clever man with sufficiently deep pockets could basically hold such a market up for ransom.

While the state temporarily instituted the T-cell criteria to bump healthier individuals off the program so it could allocate ADAP funding to those in most need, "they basically hold the patients' hand through the process," he said.

"That would basically hold things until we have the chance to do a substantive reauthorization where we move the deck chairs around," said one senior administration trade official The House bill that passed on Nov. 16 would extend the agreement for four years, to 2005.

"You basically hold the belief that your win will come at someone else's loss.

While the Fed has basically held its total Treasury holdings steady since the summer of 2011, their makeup has changed as the central bank bought more longer-term securities.

These bodies were basically holding up the turnpike".

We're basically holding your hand to help you quit.

"They're basically holding it hostage," he said.

The budget basically holds spending flat at the current year's level.