hold everything

1. Also, hold it. Stop, wait. These expressions are usually used in the imperative, as in Hold everything, we can't unload the truck yet, or Hold it, you've gone far enough. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

Two thin glass plates hold everything needed to study nature's invisible glue.

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Democrats would need to hold everything they now have in the 51-to-49 Senate or pick up a Republican seat to stay in the majority next year, he noted.

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That the word would expand to hold everything my system was processing.

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There’s a sense of containment to him, like he’s trying to hold everything inside.

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“Which is that the image is not a setting — it has to hold everything the novel is about. So that’s how I work with the image. I don’t work with symbols. No ideas but in things. They are physical objects.”

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