Sentence examples for held them off from inspiring English sources

Yet United had held them off with relative ease.

The Arab militia defending the city held them off with machine-gun fire.

The Rangers held them off for most of two periods, playing keep-away hockey.

Some fans tried to intervene, but several teammates who had followed Cobb into the grandstand held them off with bats.

Officers surrounded the house, but Mr. Ferrara held them off for more than three hours, the police said.

She held them off, without sounding nobly grief-stricken or unnaturally cheerful or absent-minded or confused.

We'd like to hold them off the board, but you can't expect to hold them off the board.

"I tried to hold them off".

I was like, whoa, we've got to hold them off".

Finland manage to hold them off, but they expend precious energy in doing so.

But the pitchers did a great job to hold them off".