Sentence examples for managed to hold back from inspiring English sources

Both managed to hold back any spurts of anger or irritation.

She managed to hold back, but that only increased the flow of tears.

This time, Radcliffe, wearing sunglasses, managed to hold back the tears as she walked slowly around the track.

Under a barrage of firing, the Belgian soldiers stationed there managed to hold back the invading troops and protect the city for 11 days.

For a spell in mid-afternoon the Americans somehow managed to hold back the European tide but then the dam burst and before he knew it McIlroy had plenty of company in his land of dreamy dreams.

Meryl Streep – Iron Lady, 2011 As she accepted her third Oscar, Meryl Streep managed to hold back the tears just enough for a short speech that was both funny and gracious, making the 30 years since her last win for Sophie's Choice seem like no time at all.

What Crowe does best is a certain sort of maleness: he is really good at violence, and at only just managing to hold back from violence.

Way to hold it together, girl! "This wasn't a game to me," she says in the car, and manages to hold back her tears until the end of the video interview.

By contrast, a massive crowd of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians from the south side of Nanking, who were fleeing in panic and disarray from the advance of Japan's 10th Army on the same night, were prevented from reaching the harbor at Xiaguan by Chinese barrier troops who fired on the crowd for retreating without permission and managed to hold it back.

That certainly seemed the case as a scorching backhand up the line gave her a break point in the opening game but Kvitova managed to hold before Konta then backed up an energetic start by holding to love.

"They had one striker up the park and we had two back and he managed to hold the ball in.