Sentence examples for held line from inspiring English sources

Heaney worries away at this theme in Squarings, where he asks "What's the use of a held note or held line / That cannot be assailed for reassurance?", but the great work of Heaney's late period is often that in which tragedy is given full rein.

Captain Porsena spurs men on to hold line.

EXTEND BOOM (TELESCOPING BOOM) (One-handed signal used when holding line).

RETRACT BOOM (TELESCOPING BOOM) (One-handed signal used when holding line).

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What burned with minimal success against our holding line earlier re-ignited and burned much more successfully in the canopies.

Firefighters took advantage of cooler weather overnight to reinforce holding lines around a blaze that has destroyed two dozen homes.

But so far I've watched the lines on my face -- and held the line.

"I believe I held the line," he wrote proudly as the last line in his autobiography.

But the governor held the line.

After a few weeks we held the line at Hungnam.