hold one's own

Example Sentences

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It’s a hard sound to land without veering into pastiche, let alone to hold one’s own amid the heavy arrangements.

From The Guardian

Being able to hold one’s own in a peloton is key to success in the mass start, and it is here that Rigas’s inline background gives her a slight edge over pure long track ice skaters and helps explain her results at international level.

From Reuters

Being able to hold one’s own in a peloton is key to success in the mass start, and it is here that Rigas’s inline background gives her a slight edge over pure long track ice skaters and helps explain her results at international level.

From Reuters

Being required to hold one’s own against the then seven-time Oscar-nominated acting legend might have daunted some actors, but the young woman from Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire seemed surprised at the suggestion.

From The Guardian

Although too slender and frail to play varsity football himself, Roosevelt hailed the sport as “the greatest exercise of fine moral qualities, such as resolution, courage, endurance and capacity to hold one’s own and stand up under punishment.”

From New York Times