Sentence examples for became holding from inspiring English sources
Jumped into insurance; rose to chairman of Insurance Company of the West; renamed Westcorp, became holding company for Western Financial Bank and WFS Financial, one of nations largest auto finance companies.
Dubbed a "capitalist" weapon for its ability to kill people but leave buildings standing, the neutron bomb became held up in political squabbles in the early 1980s.
After a while, 'Hold the door' became 'Hold the doorHold the doorHoldoorHodoor.
Bonnie also began to turn more eastward at that point before it became held up by a blocking mid-latitude ridge of high pressure, which stalled the motion.
Prisons have become holding pens for society's most vulnerable members.
The hundreds of stores, clustered around urban areas, could essentially become holding grounds for Amazon products, according to James Bailey, a management professor at George Washington University.
These include measures like "water squares" – patches of land that serve as playgrounds or parks in good weather but become holding basins for runoff when floods come.
In September 2006, the band rented practice space and began writing material for what would become Holding a Wolf by the Ears.
Cubicles along the side lines become holding cells for characters seen in various states of anxiety or time-killing — one perusing a copy of Playboy, another twiddling a Rubik's Cube.
Target price of 1400p reiterated, but buy becomes hold.
Inside, minimally drawn maps trace the journeys across borders, the points of entry that become holding zones.
