hang onto

Example Sentences

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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

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

That is a somewhat granular data point that pessimists will hang onto, as they fear “white box” competition, or the emergence of Big Tech’s own equipment taking share from Arista’s.

From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025

But in the thin upper atmosphere, carbon dioxide can’t hang onto its extra heat.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 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