Sentence examples for hold please from inspiring English sources
Customer Service Representative: Hold, please.
Would you hold, please?" She brings a second phone to her other ear.
After a pause, the girl came back and said, "May I ask who is calling?" "May I ask who's answering?" "Hold, please".
The comeback jolt — a Red Bull drink for the soul — gave the Giants' defense a calling: Hold, please, just once this season.
His sense of when each pot is ready is uncanny: when the room is busy, he may pause midway through describing Green Sanctuary White ("really savory, almost like an aperitif"), as if hearing an alarm, and ask you politely to hold, please, as he pivots gracefully to decant another customer's tea.
But when holding a caterpillar, please hold it gently so you don't smash it.
"Can you hold on, please?
"Hold still please!" he pleaded.
"Hold on, please, I think we're going too metaphorical and far afield.
And he goes, in that voice: "Hold on please while I check the Sacred Book".
