Sentence examples for holding up for from inspiring English sources

To make sure that the food stocks were holding up, for one thing.

Researchers said the results seem to be holding up for the second year of the three-year trial.

Away goal still holding up for Spanish visitors as Dortmund presses for go-ahead goal at home.

After holding up for much of 2008, exports fell off late in the year as other countries began to struggle.

That decision last week allowed Gerald Nichols, director of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System, to release to the Smithtown Library about $30,000 in state aid for the year 2000 that he had been holding up for about a month.

One of the big insurance companies is holding up for top-level consideration the issuance of a policy to a lady who has asked for coverage… Inclemment-Weather Note: On rainy days the proprietor of a dress-suits-for-hire emporium at the corner of Forty-fifth Street and Third Avenue hangs out a sign, Boys….

And then when I call in for messages, I'm held up for 15 more seconds.

But the mirror it holds up for viewers provides a very ugly, discomfiting sight.

Some have been held up for years.

Some legislation was thus held up for weeks.

Hopefully, my body will hold up for it!