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Example sentences for "could hold"

  • The small town of Beverley was as full as it could hold.

  • At last, one of the markers, who had been in the room with us the whole time, declared that he could hold out no longer, and that sleep he must.

  • With this increase I could hold my lines, and move out with a greater force than Lee has.

  • The court was by this time almost as full as it could hold; but fresh attempts were being made to squeeze in at all the entrances, for many were anxious to see and hear this part of the trial.

  • But he could hold out no longer against the monotonous, grating sound; so at last he threw down his pen, locked his portfolio, and taking up his hat and gloves, he told Job he must go to the courts.

  • He sings-- "For all the gold the world could hold, I would not give my Dodi's curl.

  • Ringtail dearly loved sweet corn and he ate until his round, furry sides were distended and he could hold no more.

  • The three gorged themselves until they could hold no more.

  • He ate all he could hold of the toothsome wood, then started upon a tour of inspection of the camp.

  • I could hold out no longer, but rushed to dear Ellen's side.

  • We could hold no longer and each ran a course of ecstatic delight ending in all the frenzy of lust to die inanimate the next instant.

  • Every wave did not submerge me, but most of them did, and I felt that it was only a question of a few moments more how long I could hold on before trusting myself to swimming to leeward.

  • I then went to work with the pan and washed it in the mouth of the brook, and as the result of this one trip gathered together more gold-dust and small nuggets than I could hold in one hand.

  • How in my enfeebled condition I could hold on to this jolting standing-place for half an hour was a mystery I could not divine.

  • So soon as I could hold up my head I went by invitation to Baltimore, and stayed there some three weeks with a college friend.

  • The general condition of the nervous system will be sufficiently indicated by the statement that it was between three or four months before I could hold a pen with any degree of steadiness.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could 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:
    black hellebore; both species; could answer; could believe; could call; could catch; could collect; could have; could hear; could love; could muster; could not bring myself; could not have been; could not have done; could obtain; could only; could procure; could reach; could scarcely; could show; could stay; could still; could think; could venture; must suffer; small cord