Holding in sentence

1866 examples of Holding in a sentence

The janitor is a bit slower and needs five minutes, and the professor takes a whole ten minutes, holding onto the ropes every step of the way.

And these days, you can tell that she is amply comfortable holding court in the most powerful institutions in the world.

Sometimes, a bout of hiccups will go on and on, and we try home remedies: sipping continuously from a glass of cold water, holding one's breath, a mouthful of honey or peanut butter, breathing into a paper bag, or being suddenly frightened.

But holding it in for too long, forcing out your urine too fast, or urinating without proper physical support may over time weaken or overwork that muscular sling.

Now, how does it feel holding someone's unlocked phone?

By the way, who's holding Al Gore's phone?

Imagine that they had 150 reviews of people saying, "They're great at holding unlocked phones!" (Laughter) Now how would you feel about handing your phone over?

Depending on the original charges, it can also disqualify them from holding office in the future and open them to standard criminal prosecution.

Meanwhile across the bar, I noticed another student holding his phone, this time towards a group.

I am holding something remarkably old.

And the one good-for-nothing left standing grips a handgun and aims it straight up, like he's holding Jesus hostage, like he's threatening maybe to blow a hole in the moon.

And he's on the floor and I'm standing over him and I got the gun in my hands now and I hate guns, I hate holding 'em 'cause I'm Batman.

These roots form a mesh, tightly holding the soil.

And I don't want to be the one to tell this kid, who is on a special program that takes Philadelphia kids from poor neighborhoods and takes them to city parks, I don't want to be the one to tell him that the flower he's holding is a non-native invasive weed that he should throw away as trash.

So I had to basically spend the last week calming everyone down, a bit like a general, where you're holding your troops back: "Calm, remain calm."

You can take out one or two and the plane still flies, but you take out one too many, or maybe that one holding on the wings, and the whole system collapses.

Not holding someone down isn't the same as lifting them up.

We were walking with him holding onto my shoulder, I miscalculated how much space there was between us, and I knocked him into a gate.

I also learned they could run on a track if I ran with them, holding a rope.

In the corridor leading from the locker room to the game field, I was walking with Silvio, who was holding onto my shoulder, so I could guide him.

We see him pictured here, holding the first UK-cultivated truffle in his hands, on one of his farms.

And for every silent prisoner of shame, it's the fear of judgment that's holding you hostage.

One is icing and simmering, which are great stalling tactics that offer a kind of holding pattern that emphasizes the undefined nature of a relationship but at the same time gives you enough of a comforting consistency and enough freedom of the undefined boundaries.

First, well-meaning New Yorkers who were in city government holding government positions had no idea how scared immigrants were of law enforcement.

So what's holding new nuclear back?

Cord was sad for a bit, but then he bounced right back with a supersmart archaeologist named Kate, and they had a gorgeous wedding until Tina, seemingly back from the dead, ran into the church holding a baby.

And one boy was thinking out loud, holding the apple.

That's when we find ourselves in endless, mindless repetitions of words that don't mean anything to us, rising and being seated because someone has asked us to, holding onto jealously guarded doctrine that's completely and wildly out of step with our contemporary reality, engaging in perfunctory practice simply because that's the way things have always been done.

People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read.

Psychologists talk about how gratitude is about taking a moment and holding on to it as long as possible.

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