Meanwhile I held back, never having been thrown with so many of my own kind.
She glanced with a kind of terror in her eyes from the girl to Nick, and what she meant to say concerning their love I know not, for the flood, held back so long, burst upon her.
He turned and glared at me, some devilish retort on his lips which he held back.
The sides and bottom will still be held back by the friction; the middle and upper part will slide forwards, but not freely.
In Victoria Land, upon the continent of Antarctica, so far as exploration has yet gone, the continental glacier is held backby a rampart of mountains, as has been shown to be true of the inland ice of Greenland.
The diagonal crevasses at the glacier margin are due to the more sluggish movement where the ice is held back by friction upon the walls of the valley, as will be clear from Fig.
Grinnell, remembering the ancient feud, held back, being unlikely to elicit Purdee's views in the face of their contradiction.
He started toward them, and then with a conscious effort he held back.
In the showrooms hung heavy red curtains held back by cords with gilt tassels.
Long red velvet curtains, held back by tasselled silken cords, draped the long windows; fluted columns at regular intervals upheld the ceiling; the floor was polished and slippery; the tables shone with white and silver.
When alone with her he maintained the pose of one struggling manfully against tremendous temptationsheld back only by her sweet influence.
If he held back, as Hamlen did, they have let him stay in his shell; then he concluded they didn't like him.
Then it would be a pity to be held backby Billy's inexperience," Cosden commented, glancing at him with a malicious smile.
I'm not sure that I myself am not the one to blame, for I knew better than she the forcesheld back only by your self-control.
But he held back doubting, criticising, a friend to the Reformation but not an apostle of it.
The men only held back, held back in doubt, supposing that it was vain for Hebrews to fling themselves against the iron chariots of Sisera.
Or have the people waited on their chiefs and the chiefs coldly held back?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "held back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
