hold together

verb(adverb)

to cohere or remain or cause to cohere or remain in one piece: your old coat holds together very well
to stay or cause to stay united: the children held the family together

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How to use hold together in a sentence

Bloom says we ought to think of truth as resembling a scientific hypothesis that helps us hold together our bits of knowledge.
Frank Schaeffer, the Atheist Who Believes in God | Nick Tabor | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
You're part of the web of tightly woven relationships, some blood, some not, that hold together a rural community.
How 'The Little Way of Ruthie Leming' Taught Me It's OK to Love My Hometown | Justin Green | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Unfortunately, you can't hold together a high-tech oil drilling economy with baling wire and chewing gum.
Why Hugo Chavez Was Bad for Venezuela | Megan McArdle | March 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
They must hold together a coalition that is sliced apart by the abortion issue.
Ending the Abortion Wars | David Frum | October 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Because, we all know, football players are supposed to be too spoiled and too immature to hold together as a real union.
Three Outcomes of the NFL Contract Talks | Allen Barra | March 5, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

Mr. Bradlaugh had to hold together a different species, with leaping legs, butting horns, and a less gregarious tendency.
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh | George W. Foote
Will those timbers which bore us here so miraculously hold together till morning?
Masterman Ready | Captain Frederick Marryat
The contractor made each coffin last as long as the boards would hold together.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests | J. J. von Tschudi
After this bath, I shall take it through one of thin size, to help the paper to hold together.
There and Back | George MacDonald
The strongest ship that ever was built could not hold together long on that sand with such a sea on as there will be there now.
A Chapter of Adventures | G. A. Henty

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