Sentence examples for holder from inspiring English sources

The word "holder" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who holds something, either in their physical possession or in a figurative sense. For example, "The record holder for the longest jump is still unbeaten after more than 10 years."

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holder

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A thing that holds.

  • Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.

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The government is hoping to reinstate temporary protection visas, which provide asylum seekers with only three years' protection and deny the visa holder the right to be reunited with their family.

But, with the change of rights holder, a mysterious sudden surge in rural interest ahead of the first BBC-broadcast final since 2009 resulted in the landlords of The Bull, the radio soap's pub, panicking that they couldn't afford a big-screen TV to satisfy demand for Arsenal v Aston Villa, and friends stepping in to help them out.

Following a request by the culture secretary, Channel 5 licence holder Northern & Shell has made a commitment for the first time about its investment in children's programmes, and will broadcast at least 600 hours of UK-originated children's programmes a year.

One box holder said a security guard had told him that the thieves "didn't break in through the vault door, but got in through the wall next to the vault door".

Universities and libraries will be allowed to upload "orphaned" works of art – artworks, photographs or books whose creator can no longer be identified – on to the internet without getting permission.Previously, they were only able to do so with the explicit permission of a copyright holder.

Brett Morse got the nod ahead of the British record holder Lawrence Okoye in the discus after beating his rival at the trials and the Aviva London Grand Prix on Saturday.

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Lainson continued to be funded by the Wellcome Trust and held the record as their longest-serving grant-holder at 47 years.

I am a locum tenens: a place-holder.

'I don't see it as a big problem.' The scepticism that the British tend to adopt when the possibility of Henman's winning Wimbledon crops up overlooks the fact that in the past three years only two different players have beaten him there, the Australian muscleman Mark Philippoussis and the title-holder Pete Sampras.

In April last year, a clearly angry US attorney general, Eric Holder, finally announced that once again, the men were to be tried by a military commission at Guantánamo.

Joining Comey and Obama this year has been the outgoing attorney general, Eric Holder, who in January called the government's accounting for use of force "unacceptable".

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