hold together

Example Sentences

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A spoonful should hold together — but only just.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

“If negotiations hold together and inflation comes broadly in line with expectations, risk sentiment is likely to improve, allowing BTC to test the $76k area,” Bitbank analyst Yuya Hasegawa wrote in a research note.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

"Now we really want nothing to do with the Canterbury structure," he said, "because it's failed to hold together any sense of biblical, historic Anglicanism."

From BBC • Dec. 24, 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

I hold together pretty well, considering how much my atoms have been through.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith