Synonym: grasp, hang in, hang on, hold the line, keep, persevere, persist, stop. Similar words: hold on to, hold out, get hold of, pull down, done, donor, done in, hand on. Meaning: v. 1. hold firmly 2. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments 3. be persistent, refuse to stop 4. hold the phone line open 5. retain possession of.
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(91) He was determined to hold on this job whatever difficulties he might run into.
(92) Hold on, Zhang Long!
(93) Their company has a strong hold on/over the computer market.
(94) The party has no intention of relaxing its hold on the country.
(95) How long should I hold on to records?
(96) Hold on to the farmland fast disappearing under subdivisions.
(97) But old habits are losing their hold on me.
(98) Hold on - I haven't finished yet.
(99) Pray, hold on, keep going, work.
(100) A client could hold on to his jaw, and people would assume he was headed for a tooth extraction.
(101) When you're at the end of your rope(sentencedict.com), tie a knot and hold on. Theodore Roosevelt 
(102) After a little while, Oliver was so cold that he couldn't hold on to the banisters any more.
(103) We hold on to one another, an unsteady circle, and leave the room together.
(104) For the moment, Mr Rocard is probably just praying that he can hold on to his seat in the Yvelines.
(105) In the way these things happen, the oppressed are sometimes revealed to have a hold on the oppressors.
(106) Hold on to all these smells until the evening, when you can deliver them up on to the blank paper.
(107) Evil has such a strong hold on Gollum that he does not have control over his own mind any more.
(108) The court action continues Burroughs' exclusive hold on the drug through at least 2005.
(109) But when you first see it, it can be rather frightening, so hold on to small children's hands.
(110) Hold on to the bannister rail and lower your heels down slowly,[www.Sentencedict.com] then slowly rise on tiptoe.
(111) Hold on please, I have an overseas call for you. Go ahead, caller.
(112) None the less, they hold on because they expect much bigger earnings in the future to eventually fuel dividend payments.
(113) He could hold on to office even though so severely disabled as to be unable to lead.
(114) He was to hold on to the window sash while cleaning.
(115) I try to hold on to a slender low branch of a birch tree.
(116) So let me begin by making some impressionistic guesses about the views women do in fact currently hold on morality.
(117) That 5 % of his may not last, but it is 5 % that Gore desperately needs to hold on to.
(118) Between their hold on giant pension funds and their private wealth, they dominate political, economic, and social policy.
(119) But why should a family hold on to a belief regardless of its truth?
(120) These ancient trees are a spiritual anchor that our culture needs to hold on to.
More similar words: hold on to, hold out, get hold of, pull down, done, donor, done in, hand on, pardon, feed on, head on, off and on, donate, abandon, don't care, based on, hold, donation, whole, holy, hold up, hold in, hold down, as a whole, scholar, household, hold back, hold water, on the whole, threshold.