Sentence examples for trying to hold back from inspiring English sources

Now we're just trying to hold back the floods".

Meanwhile, evangelicals are trying to hold back reproductive rights".

So stop trying to hold back the holidays.

"When they're trying to hold back time, as if that isn't weird.

Finally, opponents of reform are trying to hold back the inevitable.

Ray is struggling to control his breathing, and Alison is trying to hold back her tears.

I found him sitting alone in the kitchen one night, trying to hold back the tears.

"I feel like Superman," he said, "trying to hold back the tide".

Modern beer drinkers crave flavour – trying to hold back that tide back seems pointless, retrograde even.

"I'm trying to hold back on the ones that are a little more risky," he said.

But trying to hold back, he believes, isn't going to work.