hang onto
Example Sentences
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Still, these men prefer to hang onto it rather than accept the troubling possibility that women are just people — and most are easy to get along with if you treat them like equals.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
Chances are, if you hang onto it long enough, you’ll make your money back, with perhaps a little extra.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
But in a game that featured 24 lead changes the Rockets couldn't hang onto the 13-point lead they took into the final quarter.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Each robotic animal comes in an edition of two, which have sold out, but the artist plans to hang onto a third version of each dog, called an artist’s proof in art-market parlance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Now he was holding himself upright only with his mouth, and he had to hang onto the key or then press it down again with the whole weight of his body, as necessary.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
