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Example sentences for "cannot hold"

  • Howbeit all the world should be silent, I cannot hold my peace.

  • My dear brother, ye complain to me that ye cannot hold sight of me.

  • My hunger for it is hungry and lean, in believing that ever I shall be satisfied with that love: so fain would I have what I know I cannot hold.

  • It cannot hold, no reason Can sound his state in safety.

  • It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne, by my troth, we that haue good wits, haue much to answer for: we shall be flouting: we cannot hold Will.

  • It cannot hold; no reason Can sound his state in safety.

  • This you may know, And so deliver: I am put to sea With her who here I cannot hold on shore.

  • By my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for: we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.

  • I will 'scape this way; I cannot hold my Sword; what would you have Of a maim'd man?

  • Upon my life, I pity his misfortune: See how he weeps; I cannot hold.

  • I am so dreadfully sea-sick, that I cannot hold up my head!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannot hold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acting president; cannot abide; cannot bring; cannot but; cannot call; cannot conceive; cannot deny; cannot express; cannot hope; cannot imagine; cannot live; cannot make; cannot pretend; cannot read; cannot save; cannot say; cannot take; cannot tell you how; cannot think; cannot understand; cannot well; cannot write; each house; glass plates; hundred talents; veal stock