hold fast
Example Sentences
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A machine may be allocated a wide range of quotidian writing tasks, but let flesh and blood hold fast the art of writing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But mining continues to hold fast to the town’s imagination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Even if her colleagues won’t hold fast to it in future cases, it tells lower courts that they cannot abandon this principle.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2025
I see an America where we hold fast to the fearless belief that built our nation.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024
“You did right to hold fast to each other,” I said: as if the monster-splinters were living things, and could hear me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
