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Example sentences for "hold back"

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

Horse Racing) Defn: To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

It was that combination which, perhaps even more than the words of her mother, made it impossible for him to hold back.

Her throat tightened and it was hard to hold back tears.

The tear Ruth had been trying to hold back fell to the handkerchief she was selecting.

Ruth made a gesture of remonstrance, but the boyish partisanship brought the tears she had until then been able to hold back.

If others were cowardly enough to hold back, he would go alone.

Once one of them gets to looking at you with eyes that eat right into you, and soft white hands, and pretty coaxing ways, well, it's mighty hard to hold back.

To restrain is to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force.

But, all the same, my horse seems trying to hold back, just as yours did, Tubby.

They just couldn't hold back, I guess, with the fighting spirit in them.

Tubby, jerking at the reins when his animal displayed an inclination to hold back.

That got a reaction, as she'd expected from the previous night; he tried, with little success, to hold back a gasp.

Cortin stared at him, then found herself unable to hold back a wide, delighted smile.

When she entered the common-room, she had to hold back a gasp of astonishment.

Then he decided to hold back just a little longer, and let one of the others start the ball rolling.

If these shell gatherers have got the nerve to sneak into our tent and make way with our first pearl, I reckon they wouldn't hold back at taking a good old scatter-gun that chanced to be lying around loose.

I shall leave enough men behind the river here to hold back Schwarzenberg, or at least to check him if he advances.

He had left Marmont back at Champaubert to hold back Blücher.

The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.

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