Sentence examples for nearly held from inspiring English sources

That goal nearly held up.

I nearly held my breath as the lanes were cleared and the bus started again — but it was too late.

He nearly held out of training camp while his agent, Dan Fegan, demanded a trade over the summer.

Gio Ponti nearly held off Zenyatta in the last year's Classic at Santa Anita before being beaten by a length in the final yards.

Jason Schmidt (5-3) scathreed thits hins in eight innings as the Giants nearly held the Rockies scoreless for the second straight game.

Here's an extract: For Labour the results are utterly miserable, with extremely few exceptions (the party strangely gained a couple of seats in Nelson, Lancashire, despite the general collapse, and nearly held firm in Hastings).

His performance here, witty and profane, vulnerable and strutting, nearly holds the movie together.

The pitch is so bad that the ball nearly holds up on the floor for the chasing Seymour.

However, because the equalities almost always very nearly hold, and because H and S are smooth functions of the base frequencies, there is still a very tight quantitative relation between H and S in real data.

Though perhaps more consistent in this than most, he only stressed more heavily what nearly everybody held at the time.

As far as I can tell, this view is nearly universally held.