Sentence examples for holding him off from inspiring English sources
He set off up the right wing, coming inside, away from Lescott, and holding him off as he ran across the area.
In desperation, Sabres center Jochen Hecht grabbed Dubinsky, who simply carried Hecht with him down the ice, holding him off with one hand and shooting the puck with the other.
The consensus was that Quintana needed to start with a margin of two minutes over Dumoulin to be certain of holding him off; after the Dutchman's stage win last Saturday at the Oropa Sanctuary the Colombian had been 2min 49sec back, with Pinot and Nibali further behind.
Instead, this late bloomer agreed to run for the Dominican Republic, and after narrowly missing the final in last year's Olympics, he won the final tonight in 47.49 seconds, passing Fabrizio Mori of Italy with about 40 meters remaining and holding him off by five-hundredths of a second.
Kenny surged past his French opponent to take the first race and sealed his win by holding him off in the second.
But with the tyro Coleman holding him off, Gatlin powered through in the last 15 metres, maintaining his form through the line as the great champion was for once left powerless.
