Sentence examples for firmly holding from inspiring English sources

This was disproved by a better theory, although not without strong opposition from those firmly holding the earlier, and incorrect, belief.

Shoshana Soroka Dear Diary: I spotted a middle-aged man on a 23rd Street crosstown bus firmly holding (but not crushing) an empty paper coffee cup with the Starbucks logo, upside down.

(The official definition of a catch — "the act of a fielder in getting secure possession in his hand or glove of a ball in flight and firmly holding it" — offers little clarity; it used to be that you just knew a catch when you saw it).

Firmly holding up the side for Satan are Mr. Camp, colorfully sniveling as the brutish Otis, and the reliable Jan Maxwell, ice cold and oozing contempt for her betters as the sly Mrs. Lynch, the Ashbrooks' housekeeper, who is allied with Otis in his hateful trade.

(The official definition of a catch—"the act of a fielder in getting secure possession in his hand or glove of a ball in flight and firmly holding it"—offers little clarity; it used to be that you just knew a catch when you saw it).

(The official definition of a catch—"the act of a fielder in getting secure possession in his hand or glove of a ball in flight and firmly holding it"—offers little clarity; it used to be that you just knew a catch when you saw it). Farrell, the Sox skipper, perhaps motivated by replay rage from the day before, stormed out of the dugout to argue the decision.

We still firmly hold that view.

A hand firmly holds an AK47, a symbol of resistance.

Agnes just as firmly holds the opposite view.

"I admit to a firmly held prejudice," the book begins.

Am I to tell him this, and that thy purpose firmly holds?