Sentence examples for phrase holds from inspiring English sources
FOR once the hyperbolic phrase holds true: the stakes could not be much higher.
It's not hard to see why that phrase holds water.
He repeated the phrase — "Hold up!" — sixteen more times, and still nothing.
On oud, his crisply picked lines took on tension and drama, each measured phrase holding suspense.
But the current weight of law is heavily skewed against the public's right to know, or to use that somewhat pious phrase, holding truth to power.
In interviews, Azalea speaks with her natural Australian accent; in "Fancy," she raps the phrase "hold you doooown" in a bad pastiche of a Southern African-American twang, all pinched vowels and vocal fry.
China has taken a large step backwards from the ideal that women, in Mao's well-worn phrase, "hold up half the sky .It is encouraging to see women give voice to justified complaints.
At great cost in lives the armies of the despised French Third Republic – shovelling troops up from the capital in buses and taxis – and Britain's "contemptible little army" (Kaiser Bill's phrase) held the line at the first battle of the Marne, just 30 miles north-east of Paris.
To characterize the great man's speaking style, collectors of Apple stories often use the phrase "holding forth," although he is also, truth be told, someone who takes in just about everything everyone else in the conversation says and files it away in what Morley Safer, of CBS, who has been a friend of Apple's since they were in Vietnam together, calls "that Palm Pilot of a brain he has".
dHenceforth we will not repeat the phrase "holding all other moderators constant" for the sake of brevity.
