Synonym: endure, exsert, extend, go, hold up, last, live, live on, put out, resist, stand firm, stretch forth, stretch out, survive, wear, withstand. Similar words: hold on, hold on to, get hold of, pull down, do up, hand out, dough, washed out. Meaning: v. 1. thrust or extend out 2. stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something 3. last and be usable 4. wait uncompromisingly for something desirable 5. continue to live; endure or last.
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31. They could hold out until spring.
32. But they do hold out hope - sort of.
33. We just hope you can hold out until payday.
34. We can hold out for days.
35. I don't hold out much hope though!
36. They hold out hope, however, that younger Navajos will be encouraged to learn the craft.
37. When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist.
38. Having only one hand, and having that in a dozen things, he has no other to hold out.
39. Should they compromise with Clinton over a piece of the tax-cut pie or hold out for the whole pie?
40. When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she didn't hold out much hope of prising his purse open.
41. Can the plaintiff hold out, or can we starve her out?
42. Both of you need to hold out your hands in front and turn the right palm downwards and the left palm upwards.
43. It crossed my mind to hold out for a job in corporate finance.
44. She regards me with suspicion, but when I hold out my hand, she takes it.
45. All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical jargon.
46. New sluice gates hold out the sea water at high tides.
47. And he could hold out no hope of any financial assistance.
48. I want Fairfax to tell me, but I don't hold out much hope.
49. You can not will yourself to hold out against reality.
50. All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
51. If you just try to defend and hold out against them,[http://sentencedict.com/hold out.html] it wears you down.
52. The main argument from the Corsican was that they could hold out for ever.
53. Bilateral agreements may hold out more promise, if only because they are easier to administer.
54. For three more years, Masada continued to hold out, but its fall was a foregone conclusion.
55. But still she doubted her ability to hold out against him.
56. Look, don't hold out too much hope that you're going to be successful in this.
57. So too the yawning depths of the wave, even while threatening annihilation, hold out the promise of rebirth.
58. Or maybe we should hold out for a bid from Big Oil.
59. The whereabouts of the other two tureens are still unknown and every time I open the mail I hold out some hope.
60. I mean, you get people who blow a couple of bars on a mouth organ and then hold out their hands.
More similar words: hold on, hold on to, get hold of, pull down, do up, hand out, dough, washed out, weed out, find out, send out, stand out, in and out, double, hold, no doubt, whole, holy, double up, spread out, hold up, hold in, hold down, as a whole, tremendous, double back, hold back, household, scholar, without doubt.