'hold up with' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to mean to keep up or to stay on the same level as something. For example, "I'm trying to hold up with the other players on this video game."
How well "Moby-Dick" will hold up with lesser casts and productions remains to be seen.
KEY QUESTION If quarterback Eric Crouch is hurt, will Nebraska hold up with inexperienced replacements?
The Ravens are going to find out if Lewis can hold up with and without the ball.
Her husband, Luther, 29, is a whitewater and backpacking enthusiast, and although Ms. Kinney says she is fit, she has not gone on overnight backpacking trips with him because she is not sure how she'd hold up with a heavy pack for several days.
The big trend of liberal-leaning books will hold up, with upcoming titles like Senator Robert Byrd's Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency, coming out in July from W.W. Norton.
The grand tally of 2018 exits provides a clear counterpoint to skeptics (your author included), who questioned whether fast-growing unicorn populations and valuations would hold up with acquirers and public market investors.
If consumer spending holds up, with help from lower interest rates, then the prospect of rising profits will revive capital spending before this year ends.
But that depends on the story of a rebounding economy holding up, along with corporate profits.
But through successive heat waves, the electric distribution system held up, with only occasional localized disruptions.
And in a cab, "you are held up with traffic, especially in the rush hour".
