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 • Oct. 1, 2019
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 • Jul. 21, 2017
Is it not a species of egotism to hold one's own moral discernment as superior to another's; and if so, do we not need some criterion by which to judge between them?
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
Was that a time to strike a blow, and show one could hold one's own?
From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut
This word "hduze" means to take or hold one's own; and is most commonly applied to a man's taking a wife, or a woman a husband.
From Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages From the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution by Gatschet, Albert Samuel
