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How to use the word holding in a Sentence? Page #2

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By the end of that evening, we were holding hands, that was March 6. And then we were engaged July 4, and married December 28.

Graham Kidner Vickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rep. Massie is one of the smartest minds in Congress and will work harder than anyone on holding Big Tech accountable.

Russell Dye

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are kind of all in a holding pattern until we determine what the Supreme Court does in those two cases.

Nick Seabrook

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s when I turned around and saw that there was an Asian man holding a gun.

Tom Tsay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If Treasuries become something that people are worried about holding, then that has ripple effects throughout capital markets throughout the world, in ways that are really difficult to predict.

Louise Sheiner

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1 year ago

I was told by the Lottery people that, now you’re going to be that mecca, you sold a big ticket. You’re going to be the place to go. So far, it’s holding true.

Paul Wondra

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Yet seven years and two presidents later, I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history.

Baquer Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

God is holding this planet, I'm wondering when he decides to let go.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
1 year ago

These remarks show a lack of respect for one of the most admired figures by football fans around the world and our club is awaiting an immediate correction, the statements by the president of the French Football Federation are inappropriate for someone holding such representation and are in themselves unsuitable.

Real Madrid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were so fortunate to have Bernie host Reliable Sources from its launch and during all those years. We learned so much from him as he was a walking, talking history professor of journalism in the second half of the 21st century, as he said at the start of every program, ‘welcome to Reliable Sources where we turn a critical lens on the media.’ And he meant it. On the program, Bernie was passionate about holding journalists and news organizations accountable. Bernie was a real pro, a gentleman to all the young staff and he never failed to look just right in his striped dress shirts and orange ties. Our sympathies to his wife, his daughters and his brother Marvin and whole Kalb family.

Rick Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think certainly the leader and his team are continuing the negotiations, but I think, you know, it's important for those folks who are holding out to understand where the rest of us are.

Mike Lawler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers, both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can’t happen again.

Southwest Airlines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their system really has completely melted down, i made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers, both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can’t happen again.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. the United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favor to a certain country.

Sergey Lavrov

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1 year ago

The United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favor to a certain country.

Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of all the religious exemption requests submitted by midshipmen at the Naval Academy for the COVID-19 vaccine, not a single one has been approved, my constituent has already been told she can’t receive a diploma and graduate due to her status as it relates to the COVID-19 vaccine. The Navy is simply holding these individuals until the injunction preventing the separation of naval personnel is lifted.

Greg Steube

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Henry Brooks Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

More than 80 percent of the participants supported the holding of New Year's events and the festive decoration of the city, at the same time, 29 percent spoke in favor of the usual format of the celebration, and 52 percent suggested this time to refrain from mass street concerts.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Octavio Jones/Getty Images has every right to be angry, but if you stay at a place of anger, right, you are ignoring everything that is going on around you. You’re no longer looking and accessing things in the way that you should be accessing things because you’re holding on to this almost vengeful spirit, is he going to get over the trauma of the election of 2020 and begin to paint a vision for 2024 ? What is Octavio Jones/Getty Images vision for 2024 ? Is it I ’m back ? Because that’s not a vision to me. It needs to be more than, ‘ I ’m back. ’.

Candace Owens

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You can imagine a situation in the current environment where members at the beginning of the alphabet say Donald Trump. You don't have to be a member of the House to be speaker, if people on the Republican side start standing up and saying Donald Trump, you could have an impact where many people say that and where Donald Trump will begin to view that as some sort of a loyalty test. That is the power that he is holding right now over Kevin McCarthy and over a number of members in the leadership of the Republican caucus.

Liz Cheney

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We call on the legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace. If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce, because we’re not breaking up a family. Moving a state border issimilar to redistrictinga utility provider.

Mike McCarter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am standing here before you, the Rabin family, the Rabin Center members, holding out my hand and asking, 27 years later: Please let us be partners in this day. Let’s search for the common message that will make us remember together, the whole nation, left and right, religious and secular. Don’t let them turn the murder memorial into a day of cynical exploitation and political mudslinging.

Bezalel Smotrich

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1 year ago

Holding their own would be enough for the GOP, democrats need to start evening things up, but this is a tough year for them to start.

Larry Sabato

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think it's important that we strategically lay this out in a way that we can get some results through legislation to prevent these bad things from happening again, everyone is worried about what these IRS agents will do, and we're committed to holding the agency accountable.

Adrian Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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