Sentence examples for has somehow held from inspiring English sources

That reputation has somehow held up.

For six weeks cricket has witnessed a constantly alluring spectacle which has comprised fearless  attacking batting, bowling which has been constantly under the pump but has somehow held its own and fielding of quite staggering athleticism, all in eight hours.

The doctors have told him he's cured but Bill has somehow held onto the feeling of pain.

Clay Buchholz, who was dealing with stiffness in his pitching shoulder, had somehow held them.

Jeter rejected the idea that the pursuit of 3,000 hits had somehow held him back and that achieving it had freed him psychologically.

In the last 10 years, a theory that had somehow held up unsupported for nearly half a century has been rejected by several comprehensive evidence reviews, even as it staggers on, zombie-like, in our dietary guidelines and medical advice.

What I've been wondering is whether the current, woebegone Mets of September could even beat their famous ancestors who, after muffing most chances back in '62, have somehow held gamely on to the tag as the worst baseball act of all for 41 inglorious years.

Yet when most of England woke to the news on the Sunday morning, the news that Douglas had been felled in the eighth before knocking out Tyson in the 10th engendered a sense that he had somehow held on and hit Tyson with a freakish right-hander.

Despite the dilapidation, Larundel has somehow still held onto its beauty.

Garry Mulholland's interview with Tricky makes the disingenuous suggestion that the ornery Bristolian's career has been somehow held back by the inability of other "middle-class" music journalists to get to grips with his straightforward proletarian essence.

But there is a larger sense, well outlined long ago by the hockey analysts Jeff Klein and Karl Reif, in which hockey has always, since its nineteenth-century beginnings in urban ethnic warfare, been a game uneasily attuned to riots, lending itself to a kind of clannish brutality that has to be, somehow, held in check for the game's superior, breathtaking creativity to take hold.