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Use hold in a sentence

Sentences starting with hold

Hold on, Sam,--we won't get nowhere by calling names. [9]
Hold that jug while I pour the darling liquor in. [11]
Hold your hand under my mouth that I may give you money for your journey. [10]
Hold me down to the earth, for I feel my powers a-working! [5]
Hold fast, as the law commands, by what is old; but never shut the gates of your kingdom against what is new, if better. [10]
Hold on, Sam, that ain't no way to talk to the doctor! [9]
Hold still, now--hold still; don't interrupt--I tell you I know what I am talking about. [5]
Hold your scarf over it just a moment till I come back. [13]
Hold fast to one thing, don't let one thing go--hope. [10]
Hold on, hold on! [5]

Sentences ending with hold

We tried him with all sorts of lines and a piece of pork, but he declined to take hold. [5]
I do not wish to put him in the ranks, nor yet to give him a commission, to which those who have already served long are better entitled and better qualified to hold. [7]
I now recur to these things simply to remind you of the general views which I have expressed, and which I still hold. [7]
It was hard to get a grip on him that would hold. [5]
He showed me the way the thing was being done, the way the company was being floated, how the market in New York was catching hold. [11]
The noise in the corridors grew louder, some one dealt a smashing kick on a panel, and Wetherell ventured to ask Mr. Bixby if he thought the doors would hold. [9]
Ay, laugh, if that's your pleasure, Goliath huge and old, I soon shall fare forth singing, you still your place must hold. [10]
The machine doesn't take hold. [4]
I concealed, I stole, if you will, the document you hold. [11]
There is a sly look about that young Doctor's eyes, which might imply that he knows something about what the silver vessel holds, or is going to hold. [6]

Short sentences using hold

Only, hold up your head! [10]
And you hold this. [9]
You hold a secret. [11]
Hold your noise, little Jacob. [12]
Hold up your head. [10]
Hold up your head! [10]
Hold out your hand! [6]
They hold me captive. [2]
But hold your cap on! [10]
Hold on a bit? [5]

Sentences containing hold two or more times

Among the commanders who hold these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called "Abolitionism," or with "Republican Party politics," but who hold them purely as military opinions. [7]
Then he added to Angelo, "Now hold your grip, hold your grip, I tell you, and I'll land him sure! [5]
I couldn't hold them in, my hands grew numb in the sharp frost so that I threw down the reins--'Catch hold yourself, your excellency! [2]
The ligature was their best hold then, the literature became their best hold later, when one of them committed an indiscretion, and they had to cut the old bond to accommodate the sheriff. [5]
The flame touched the sticks at last, took gradual hold upon them--hesitated--took a stronger hold --hesitated again--held its breath five heart-breaking seconds, then gave a sort of human gasp and went out. [5]
It is well the alleys are not wider, because they hold as much smell now as a person can stand, and of course, if they were wider they would hold more, and then the people would die. [5]
He wanted to stay, but he went against his will, and--and I wish that the grub-hunters, and tuft-hunters, and the blind greedy majority in England could get hold of what he got hold of. [11]
Clutch hold, I say, clutch hold, or--" "Or you will fall upon me," said Paulus, whose arms had dropped by his side during the youth's address. [10]
I hold my peace because--because I hold my peace. [11]
It did not occur to Honora that her thoughts might be more of the castle than of the rock: of the heaven he was to hold on his shoulders than of the Hercules she had chosen to hold it. [9]

More example sentences with the word hold in them

Captain and Quartermaster Zorrillo, remained behind to hold the citizens in check. [10]
I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
You can hold your head high enough and look cool enough. [10]
When I hold your hand I feel that life's worth living--I want to do things. [11]
And I'll hold your hand all through it--yes, I will! [11]
Stand well on your guard, hold all your ground, or yield any only inch by inch and in good order. [7]
But you hold your grip, and we'll see what can be done. [5]
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
Mrs. Mandel hold you up to the proprieties pretty strictly? [8]
I know that you hold some power over my friend. [11]
My blessing, if you hold fast to what you have promised. [10]
Do you think you hold a charter of freedom for your self-will? [11]
Tell me--how did you get hold of that page of manuscript? [5]
At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre. [2]
Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. [5]
Nadel thought he would take hold of it at one time, but he dropped it again. [8]
The little forts would not hold them; and they went out to hew clearings from the forest, and to build cabins and stockades. [9]
She said she would not hold fellowship with assassins. [5]
I wish you would go to the Mississippi River at once, and take hold of and be master in the contraband and leasing business. [7]
Often Polly Ann would draw me to her and whisper: "We'll hold out, Davy. [9]
I said it would be a good idea to get some more garrisons to help him; but they said no, he had nothing to do but hold the place, and he was competent to do that, had done it two years already. [5]
Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. [5]
The education of woman and the development of her powers hold the greatest promise for the regeneration of society. [4]
Even if Ledscha withdraws from you, hold fast to her image. [10]
We'll camp right with them, en' try to hold them. [13]
They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
I don't hold with the unions--you know it well, sir, or you wouldn't be asking me advice. [9]
Agreements entered into with the government by union leaders will not hold him if at any time he fails to be satisfied that the present world conflict will not result in a greater social justice. [9]
I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me. [7]
I believe it will hold water. [9]
I know you will hold out loyally and would look death in the face as fearlessly as your sister did in Haarlem; but I, I cannot endure the thought of seeing you fall into the hands of our butchers. [10]
The greatest men will hold out a hand to a beautiful woman, and time was when I could lead you all as with a rope. [10]
Place?--Jim and I will hold it yet. [11]
But they were wild Mexican fellows, and a man had to stand at the head of each of them and hold him fast while the driver gloved and got himself ready. [5]
W. Du bist wie eine Blume!--So schon und hold und rein--Ich schau' Dich an, und WehmuthSchleicht mir ins Herz hinein. [5]
If they don't, why, glad and good, the Hardi Biaou is big enough to hold the cough-drops. [11]
The woman to whom Julius Caesar owned his subjugation might well hold her head higher than the unhappy, vanquished Queen who, save the permission to die--" "Do not part with the letters," said Octavianus kindly. [10]
The modest Northerners who have got hold of it, and staked it all out into city lots, seem to want to keep it all to themselves. [4]
Eight nimble hands, which were often aided by Iras's skilful fingers, toiled busily, and soon the latter could hold up the mirror before Cleopatra, exclaiming from the very depths of her heart, "Like the foam-born Aphrodite and the golden Hathor! [10]
The changes also which they undergo are due to the intrusion of new precedents, which hold their ground against opposition, and keep their place. [5]
The same law which organized the Supreme Court in 1824 also established and organized circuit courts to be held in each county in the State, and five circuit judges were appointed to hold those courts. [7]
The boat in which Carmen had been placed was swamped not far from shore, but she managed to lay hold of a piece of drifting wreckage, and began to fight steadily and easily landward. [11]
And as for what we'll think of this in another year, why, doesn't it hold to reason that we'll think it the best day of our lives-- as it is, Guida? [11]
The loss of what we possess nearest and dearest to us in this world, produces an effect upon the character we search out what we have yet left that can support, and, when found, we cling to it with a hold of new-strung tenacity. [14]
I cannot tell what power you hold over me, whether of life and death, or of wealth and poverty; but after talking to me of love, I should not have thought you would have wronged me by suggesting any meaner motive. [6]
Well, without noticing what I was doing, I took hold of the knob, and open comes the door! [5]
I cannot see what he means by parading these resolutions, if it is not to hold me responsible for them in some way. [7]
Nails and rivets were with difficulty got to hold in the sides of the old Indianian. [9]
The seats we were to have were full, and we had to be stowed where there was any place that would hold us. [6]
Apparently, Rhodes's agents were seconding their efforts--in fact wearing out the telegraph wires trying to hold him back. [5]
In the hold were more than one hundred and fifty English prisoners. [9]
Our cases, indeed, were dissimilar, and Tom's incentive to hold back the facts was not nearly so great as mine. [9]
All the servants were called together, and strict enquiry was made as to the theft of the stone; then I could hold out no longer, and confessed everything. [10]
But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip. [2]
Even fifty men, well intrenched, could hold the position until the main body of Ali Wad Hei's infantry came on. [11]
You know as well as I do that the whole nation hold as much as three-fifths of the United States Senate in entire contempt.--Three-fifths of you are Dilworthys. [5]
As it was, we stopped what might have been our murder by saying it would be wiser to hold us as hostages, and that we were Americans. [11]
On the train we found several Sydney friends; among them a Judge who was going out on circuit, and was going to hold court at Broken Hill, where the celebrated silver mine is. [5]
Full dress, as we call it, is so full of beauty that it cannot hold it all, and the redundancy of nature overflows the narrowed margin of satin or velvet. [6]
There wasn't any way to collect that ten cents, and he reckon'd the gov'ment would hold him responsible for it and maybe turn him out besides, when they found he hadn't collected it. [5]
I made my way back to Charlestown, and there I learned to gamble, to hold liquor like a gentleman, to run horses and fight like a gentleman. [9]
Tarnation, I reckon Washington and all his European fellers east of the mountains won't be able ter hold us back this time. [9]
My father's argument was this: If men are deprived by violence of one kind of property which they hold under the law, all other kinds of property will be endangered. [9]
But his intellect was superficial, and his temperament was dangerous, because there were not the experiences of a soul of truth to give the deeper hold upon the meaning of life. [11]
His mental make-up was such that it was difficult for him to hold any position long. [5]
He saw there was something wrong, and he did not know whether to speak or hold his tongue; or, as he said to himself, he "didn't know which eye to wink. [11]
David Humphrey, who was outside, offered to put up the Sergeant's horse; but he said: "No, if you'll hold him just a moment, Mr. Humphrey, I'll ask for a drink of something warm, and move on. [11]
The Serapis, too, was now beginning to blaze aloft, and choking wood-smoke eddied out of the Richard's hold and mingled with the powder fumes. [9]
He declared there was not a veterinary surgeon in the whole town fit to hold a certificate, and his listeners nodded an extreme approval to this sentiment. [9]
At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
Now when all was made ready Aunt Jacoba begged of Ann that she should hold the sore closed while Master Ulsenius made the linen bands wet. [10]
Her open rebellion was less annoying than Janet's silent reproach, but at least she had something to take hold of. [9]
But his mind was gradually recovering its balance, and he was able to hold some conversation with those about him. [6]
Gradually his voice was coming back to him, so that he could hold some conversation, as was before mentioned, with those about him. [6]
But the die was cast now, and pride alone was sufficient to hold me to the course I had rashly begun upon. [9]
Not that she was anything partik'ler to him; but the thing took hold of him unusual. [11]
When next Laura was alone, she fell into a train of thought something like this: "If the Senator has really taken hold of this matter, I may look for that invitation to his house at, any moment. [5]
The grate, which was a wide one, was wound and screwed up tight, so as to hold no more than a little thin sandwich of fire. [12]
In a lower voice Mona continued: "I don't know what possessed me, but perhaps it was that the things he did of which I disapproved most had got a hold on me in spite of myself. [11]
There was no visible neglect, no sufficient alienation for gossip to take hold of. [4]
The gentleman from Virginia had stated that he had to hold eleven courts. [7]
It is a very curious case she has got hold of, and I do not wonder at all that she should have felt convinced that she had come at the true solution of the village riddle. [6]
Charmian did not venture to go there; a visit to Octavianus's former teacher would have been misinterpreted, and it was repugnant to her own delicacy of feeling to hold intercourse at this time with the foe and conqueror of her royal mistress. [10]
He spied Captain Vance himself on the stage, and bade Uncle Ben hold to the horses while he shouldered his way to that gentleman. [9]
Do you counsel us to fasten it anew, with a looser knot, which will hold as long as the whim of a vacillating weakling who has broken his promises to us and to Moses a score of times? [10]
And though I urged him not to tax himself, he spoke slowly thus: "And David was in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. [11]
She'd got the upperhand of her father now; but if he'd only taken hold of her in season! [6]
It was impressed upon you and yours to hold the life of another sacred; to us, our duty as the sovereign transcends this law. [10]
Dorl must give up his hold on that money--or--" He nodded gravely. [11]
Even Catherine dried up her tears and laughed when she thought of the English getting hold of the French Commander-in-Chief's reason for staying out of a battle. [5]
I hold it up as a wall between you and the heathen abomination which you hail with joy in your blindness. [10]
These are not unpleasant subjects; they are not uninteresting subjects; they are even exciting subjects --until one of these massive scientists gets hold of them. [5]
It is not unpatriotic to hold that opinion if a man is a Douglas man. [7]
This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. [7]
I hold myself under constitutional obligations to allow the people in all the States, without interference, direct or indirect, to do exactly as they please; and I deny that I have any inclination to interfere with them, even if there were no such constitutional obligation. [7]
Every day or two, during this time of sorrow, Tom watched his opportunity and went to the little grated jail-window and smuggled such small comforts through to the "murderer" as he could get hold of. [5]

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