Synonym: hold back, wait. Similar words: get hold of, hold out, hold on, hold over, hold on to, field of vision, cool down, seldom. Meaning: v. 1. resist and fight to a standoff 2. wait before acting.
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1) North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
2) Hold off making your decision until Monday.
3) She always likes to hold off for rent.
4) Could you hold off your decision until next week?
5) Mary tends to hold off from people.
6) Will the rain hold off until after the game?
7) The football match had to hold off for about half an hour because of a driving rain.
8) Could you hold off making your decision for a few days?
9) Let's hope the gunmen will hold off for the duration of the cease - fire .
10) We must be ready to hold off the coming storm's attack.
11) We could get a new computer now or hold off until prices are lower.
12) The board of directors will hold off making a decision until next Wednesday.
13) Let the summer skies hold off,[http://sentencedict.com/hold off.html] for the moment.
14) But Mr Walesa will not hold off for ever.
15) Although tying up, she battled on well to hold off Flying Speed by a neck.
16) He had to keep dazzling the crowds to hold off his detractors.
17) Bosses hold off on pay COMPANY bosses are leading by example on pay restraint.
18) If they jump for joy today hold off until they sober up again.
19) The bunkers were built on the cliffs to hold off the enemy's landing forces.
20) Sometimes I can hold off until just before I hear my flight back to Hartford, Conn., being called.
21) If I was in their shoes I'd hold off a couple of days.
22) He asks her please to hold off on any action until he can review the situation personally.
23) How much longer will the resistance fighters be able to hold off the enemy?
24) Umbrellas could be made of oiled cloth, so that they did incidentally hold off the rain.
25) For some of those years I had thought it might hold off the crack-up.
26) It would be good to clear the air, but she hoped it would hold off until after the party.
27) When I first tried to envision this tiny woman trying to hold off a mob of angry right-wingers, I almost laughed.
28) Square on his feet, Jos looked as though he could hold off a steamroller.
29) It was clearly a case of workers trying to use union muscle to hold off reality.
30) I won't have to understand what has occurred if I hold off from consciously realizing that it has happened.
More similar words: get hold of, hold out, hold on, hold over, hold on to, field of vision, cool down, seldom, fall down, boil down, pull down, roll down, bulldog, bulldoze, boil down to, bulldozer, DOF, doff, do for, nod off, set the world on fire, send off, fend off, paid off, kind of, head off, ward off, on and off, laid off, proud of.