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withholding

How to use withholding in a sentence

These are very common examples of defective economy; and of that 'withholding' which the Scripture says 'tends to poverty.'

Did she, like the rest of them, suspect me of seeking to frustrate his suit by withholding his fortune?

DROSSHENRY SETON MERRIMAN

Who are the other parties who are withholding their testimony?

The motive for withholding Shakspeare's plays from the press is as easily understood as that for publishing Marlowe's.

They contain one instance, which is not familiar, of the inconvenience of withholding the franchise from English women.

He was greatly perplexed; and in his perplexity as to her motives in withholding intelligence, he did not inquire.

Mr. Keynes ignores the fortunes made by deliberately cornering and withholding commodities in a time of shortage.

I do not like this punishment of withholding pay—it falls so very hard upon poor families.

We have seen the liberality with which she places her whole life at God's disposal, withholding nothing from the divine service.

The responsibility was so great of either giving or withholding the answer, as he knew it, to that question of Dickie's.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985