Synonym: defy, delay, detain, endure, go, hold, hold out, hold water, last, live, live on, stand up, stick up, support, survive, sustain, withstand. Similar words: build up, add up, end up, head up, wind up, stand up, speed up, round up. Meaning: v. 1. be the physical support of; carry the weight of 2. hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration 3. cause to be slowed down or delayed 4. rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat 5. continue to live; endure or last 6. resist or confront with resistance 7. resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc..
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91. Harrod wanted to hold up somewhere till things cooled down.
92. I asked my tennis partner to hold up so I could tie my shoelace.
93. And just like other UNIX systems, the group scattered files containing the system directory structure in the tree, like a stent usually hold up the entire operating system.
94. Suppose I hold up my boom box for you and it's playing music.
95. Don't count on the bumper to hold up during a low-speed collision. And that fender-bender could be costly.
96. The man sat down very pompously. Whenever he asked a question, each one tried to outdo the others in answering him, which prompted him to hold up his hand and say, "One person answering is enough."
97. But if we do win the League I will gladly hold up my hands as a doubter and say that I was wrong and then claim that I never, ever thought we would lose the League.
98. Illegally hold up or detain a motor vehicle, without listening to the dissuasion, thus causing serious traffic jam or heavy property losses.
99. Autumn of 1988, the army re-introduction of the rank of the system, in more than a thousand generals in another five women's shoulders hold up the brilliant Venus.
100. BATA reaffirms its opposition to plain packaging of tobacco products and believes any such proposals do not hold up to close scrutiny.
101. One night Bufflehead, while on duty, accidentally interrupted a hold up of a grocery store.sentence dictionary
102. The inexperienced construction engineer ran into trouble suddenly when he found that the beams were too weak to hold up the roof.
103. I hold up a $20 bill and say: I am going to auction off this $20 bill. Please note that this is a real $20 bill and a real auction.
104. "If the data hold up pretty well, it's going to be a bit of a challenge to the view that the U.S. economy is going to falter, but probably won't convince the most skeptical of people," Stanley said.
105. I think I will fall; thus I lean against the desk order to hold up myself.
More similar words: build up, add up, end up, head up, wind up, stand up, speed up, round up, add up to, hold, stand up to, lead up to, stand up for, holy, whole, end up with, hold out, hold on, hold in, hold down, as a whole, hold on to, get hold of, household, scholar, hold back, Catholic, on the whole, hold water, threshold.