I opened myself to anger, held no barriers against it.

He was in a garden of fantasies where no natural barriers held.

Only an invisible barrier still held the atmosphere inside the ship.

He pressed against the slide panel just to make sure of that point, but the barrier held.

The barrier could not hold much longer; there had been too many calls upon the central energy.

A quick check assured him that the barrier still held.

The barrier might not hold whatever it was, if anything, he summoned.

But the kinetic barrier held, and he absorbed the blow.

Whatever defensive barrier her companion trusted in had not held.

If the barrier had not held, it would have sliced through his throat.