Sentence examples for holds like from inspiring English sources
He belongs to the light, light, light novel that Muriel Spark holds like a balancing shadow under her deadly serious work of art.
This is perhaps most evident in "The Guitar Player," where the image of a man with one arm poking through a piece of Astroturf — which he holds like a musical instrument — is subtly sliced and torqued.
But the little blossom-sprouting serpent that Gauguin holds like a pet in his hand has a decadent, yesterday feel: it's a Baudelairian flower of evil, the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Over the next 18 to 24 months, he said, he is optimistic about the prospects for a number of large-cap technology issues he holds, like Intel, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and EMC.
March 10 2012 The admired Scottish musician comes to the 92nd Street Y with his "Brahms guitar," an eight-stringed instrument that he holds like a cello; he employs its expanded possibilities in music by Bach (the Lute Suite No. 6, BWV 1012), Hindemith (a transcription of the Sonata for Harp), and Ponce.
John Pugh, the Lib Dem MP for Southport on Merseyside, says the strategy is to fight every seat the party holds like a "mini Stalingrad".
Hold it with the holes to the left then hold like curve.
I felt cradled, held like a baby.
We placed them on cutting boards, slicing them with knives that we held like tennis rackets.
The lightweight and easy grip makes the iPad 2 easier to hold like a steering wheel.
But tablets beg not only to be carried like magazines but to be held like them, too.
