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Example sentences for "hold upon"

  • He has got a hold upon me that nothing will ever shake off.

  • It was, therefore, impossible that Murbridge could have any hold upon him.

  • The desire for vengeance by this time had taken such a hold upon him, and had become such an integral part of his constitution, that he was staggered beyond measure by her words.

  • He was growing wild again; but the horror had again laid hold upon Helen, and she stood speechless, staring at him.

  • Wingfold, who, having found his master, was docile as a child, but had not laid firm enough hold upon what he had last said.

  • I should have been very sorry to have given any foreign prince a hold upon me, even through my affections.

  • Does it not give our good aunt Elizabeth a hold upon him, which no foreign sovereign should have over one of our subjects?

  • It says not a little for his vigour and apparent hold upon life, that after he had passed his eighty-second year he intended to superintend the erection of his new house, which was to be built entirely from his own designs.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    conspicuous part; critical analysis; first performance; flushed face; for those; gutta percha; hold fast; hold forth; hold him; hold office; hold slaves; hold thee; hold their; hold themselves; hold upon; holding fast; holding them; paper entitled; private hands; raise and support armies; sand hill; single minute; supernatural revelation; thou believest; whole frame; you again