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Example sentences for "hold them"

  • But instead of putting these divisions into the enemy's works to hold them, he permitted them to halt and rest some distance in the rear of his own line.

  • These troops could perform this service just as well by advancing as by remaining still; and by advancing they would compel the enemy to keep detachments to hold them back, or else lay his own territory open to invasion.

  • It was gallantly made, many men getting up to, and over, the works of the enemy; but they were not able to hold them.

  • We'll have to play our trump and put Matson in to hold them down.

  • That ought to hold them for a while," commented Jim.

  • Of course I could try to hold them to their contracts, but you know as well as I do that baseball contracts are more a matter of honesty than of legal obligation.

  • Leaves are glued to the under side of these, and a lining of thin tissue-paper is pasted on to hold them in place.

  • The lower half should be strengthened with cross pieces nailed on, and both halves with twists of wild grape-vine or green briar, wired at their crossings to hold them firmly in place.

  • It's a sure snap for anybody who'll help me hold them over.

  • Festing braced himself in a vain attempt to hold them, for the trail was half covered with tall grass and broken by badger holes.

  • He need not try to hold them; the storm would stop them soon.

  • In Texas, we brought our prisoners under the control of the laws, which there give us power to hold them as slaves.

  • Open-air parade services were tried for the convalescents, but it soon became impossible to hold them.

  • I interspersed my address with illustrations from my travels and experience in this country, which seemed to hold them in attention to the finish.

  • If they took charge, they could guide the men and hold them together.

  • With half a dozen men to help him, he was pushing back the crowd from the pit-mouth, and stretching barbed wired to hold them back.

  • To hold them unrolled he took the books which he now generally, and which were the Catechism, his mass-book, the Imitation of Jesus Christ, and a volume of Pere Gratry.

  • In families, we suffer for one another's faults, even when we hold them in abhorrence.

  • And when we turn to our opponents and see sin in them, instead of being grieved, we fall on them savagely to upbraid them, and we hold them up to open scorn.

  • But, like Ephraim, Manasseh was not able to hold them at first.

  • Hold them there—hold them,” shouted Scottie from the rear, and Steve and Whip fled clattering round to the head of the mob and beat them back as they began to break out of it.

  • Will I bring the sheep down or hold them?

  • I bought 22 individual salt dishes and made a box to hold them, as shown in the illustration.

  • Fasten these to the crosspieces by means of tacks to hold them securely.

  • The end pieces are cut in two at one-fourth their distance from each end, a hinge screwed to the under side to hold them together, and a hook and eye fastened on the other side to hold the parts rigid when they are in use.

  • The two ends may be tied together with a string to hold them temporarily.

  • The Sioux made desperate efforts to hold them in the herd, but the panic had spread to the riding ponies, and they were rearing and plunging in a manner that demanded the entire attention of the riders.

  • Then if the Blackfeet hear you we will be ready to hold them back.

  • Sun Bird and the war party fought savagely to hold them off, but the company of Blackfeet who had ridden along the Sioux flank circled under cover of the darkness and reached the herd.

  • The ponies appeared to understand that they were moving toward water, and the Sioux found it almost impossible to hold them in control.

  • Take a stitch also in the centre of the lips to hold them together.

  • Put together pieces 1 and 2 of the mould, cut a groove around them to hold a stout string, and tie it tightly to hold them together.

  • Having finished the eyes and fashioned the nostrils, cut some pieces of pasteboard, bend them to the right shape, and either sew or pin them upon the ears to hold them in precisely the right attitude until they dry.

  • The cattle surged and drifted almost at will, for we were compelled to hold them loose to avoid milling.

  • Have to hold them in, I reckon, to keep from making twenty miles a day.

  • The seller agreed to hold them overnight, and Flood and I culled back about one hundred and twenty which were under age or too light.

  • You may be able to hold them, but I don't see how you can score against their defense.

  • The Queen's followers cried valiantly and incessantly: "Hold them!

  • The boys in the stand called almost despairingly to "hold them," while pandemonium reigned on the opposite side of the field.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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