Sentence examples for holds fire from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of hold fire
What else would you expect him to say while he holds fire on a referendum?
You want to root for a team like the San Diego Padres which holds fire sales of players?
Room after room holds fire trucks: silver-plated high-wheeled parade carriages, bulbous steam pumpers, long skinny hook-and-ladder apparatuses, hand-painted 19th-century engines that look like calliopes and 1930's engines as curvy and stolid as Packards.
Some subsidiary characters just aren't needed, and though the opera is played straight through, in two acts of 11 scenes each without an interval, the pacing is uneven and the drama sometimes holds fire just when it needs to be moving remorselessly on.
Happily, Weinstein, a chef and an avid environmentalist, holds fire where the reader is concerned and reserves his scorn for the Bush administration, linking its cavalier disregard for our natural resources with its conviction that the rapture will occur any day now.
Anthony Taylor holds fire once again.
Holding fire makes more sense.
They held fire and watched.
Hold fire, calm down and be nice to each other".
Rarely do movies hold fire for very long.
