Thesaurus / hold back

hold back

How to use hold back in a sentence

I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN

Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.

Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.

He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.

With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.

The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.

Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.

Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985