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Example sentences for "holdups"

Lexicographically close words:
holding; holdings; holds; holdst; holdup; holdyng; hole; holed; holes; holi
  1. Remember that dark space near the middle of the viaduct, where so many holdups come off?

  2. Say you didn't stop because you were afraid of being held up--there have been several automobile holdups in that vicinity recently.

  3. With Mr. Paul Pfeiss, an eminently competent manufacturer, recognizing the incompetence of his own group as partly responsible for the holdups practiced on the city and with Mr. Warren S.

  4. The trial and execution of Green scared hundreds of petty crooks away from Denver, and for a long time afterward the city was almost entirely free from holdups and burglaries.

  5. Times were lively, and murders, holdups and burglaries were frequent.

  6. Holdups were of frequent occurrence, often it was thought through the connivance and assistance of the drivers themselves.

  7. Another thing which greatly complicated the case, was the number of robberies and holdups that occurred the same night, and the officers vainly tried to connect this crime with some of the others.

  8. Its occupants bewailed their losses, vowed vengeance on both holdups and railway.

  9. The holdups were backing off, burning a lot of powder but doing no harm, and I guessed that their horses were in a bluff about five hundred yards from the track.

  10. It was the Mexican revolution that had revived wild times, with all the attendant raids and holdups and gun-packing.

  11. There's already been holdups on the railroads an' raids along the Rio Grande Valley.

  12. Some twenty-odd thousand," he said soberly; "and I believe the man that got it is responsible for the holdups that have been pulled off around here.

  13. First, if that package the holdups got had contained the money you could have swore it was a put-up job.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holdups" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.