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"Hold up" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Hold up a minute. I want to check something.
I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up?
What is holding up traffic?
Herds of wandering reindeer are frequently seen, and may even hold up the train while they cross the unfenced line to reach their feeding grounds.
It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso was held up by Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.
The guy tried to hold up a bank.
Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.
In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.
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held up for public ridicule
I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain.
hold up to scrutiny
hold up to heavy use
The now infamous '108 woodlands' figure published by the Woodlands Trust, and later used by others to infer that HS2 would destroy 108 woodlands, does not hold up to scrutiny.
For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal
how're you holdin up?
Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up.
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