hold together

Example Sentences

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He hopes Syria's mosaic of religions and sects can hold together.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Douglass now recognized Lincoln’s early caution as wise statecraft, a way to hold together a North where many opposed slavery but balked at equality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Across his many books, including the dense and wondrous "Underland," he takes in everything around him with fluid, impeccably crafted prose —somehow managing to hold together science, myth, memory and movement in a single voice.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

"The tissue still has enough structure to hold together but it is soft enough to allow the neurons to grow into each other and start talking to each other," Zhang says.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

Lefty knew that all the things in his head couldn’t hold together.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides