"hold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Hackett held him off by less than two seconds, winning in 14:43.40.
- He was holding his own exhaustion off by sheer effort of will.
- If the invasion comes they'll probably expect us to hold it off all by ourselves.
- He sees them as his best opportunity to hold off another invasion by China.
- And there were so many of the aliens, he couldn't hold them off all by himself.
- But they had to hold off a threat by the Twins in the ninth.
- He held off a frown by the skin of his teeth.
- In 893 the city held off another siege by the Danes.
- Here the waves came in quietly, their force held off by the cape, and a boat might land.
- The rest are holding off because of objections by Greece.
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