hold down
Example Sentences
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The duo will hold down the fort from Times Square beginning at 5 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
Plus, the Federal Reserve plans to buy hundreds of billions of short-term Treasury bonds annually, another move that would pump money into the financial system and hold down rates.
From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025
She recalls how Néstor Kirchner banned beef exports to hold down domestic prices, ruining her cattle farm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Those are tactics “neither employers nor employees like but companies resort to in a pinch to hold down premium increases,” he noted.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 22, 2025
“I wanted to come, but your wife said I should hold down the fort.”
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
