I was indeed glad to find the party still there, as I had great doubts whether they could hold out until my return.
Hitherto they had been enabled to hold out to the present time by compensating for their misfortunes by their successes.
Could any troops, officerless, unhinged, riddled through and through, instantly gather themselves together with sufficient force to hold out against a foe flushed with triumph and intoxicated with success?
Of course he meant to hold out, and he said so in round terms, and the Burgher departed discomfited and without having secured a plan of the fortifications!
He acknowledged the bravery of the British soldiers, but imagined that hardships and deprivations would so demoralise them that they would be unable to hold out against an enemy superior in numbers.
Pass over them documents for Cherokee Hall, an' don't hold out nothin' onto us.
I was glad to hear that he had commenced to farm and to raise things for himself and family, and I was glad to hear him ask me to hold out my hand.
And now, Indians of the plains, I thank you for the open ear you have given me; I hold out my hand to you full of the Queen's bounty and I hope you will not put it back.
I hold out a full hand to you, and it will be a bad day for you and your children if I have to return and say that the Indians threw away my hand.
I was so very anxious that Burnside should get news of the steps being taken for his relief, and thus induce him to hold out a little longer if it became necessary, that I determined to send a message to him.
A council of war was held by the enemy at which all agreed that it would be impossible to hold out longer.
He added that if this was true, it was useless for him to hold out longer.
He knew that Johnston was in our rear for the purpose of raising the siege, and he naturally would want to hold out as long as he could.
But as ills would come, and disease and death seemed to be the common lot of mankind, the beverage of immortal life was a glorious idea to hold out to mortal man.
The government, indeed, should seem to hold out encouragement to suicide, by a very common practice of mitigating the sentence of death, in allowing the criminal to be his own executioner.
There was no need, though, for the Post Office officials to hold out, and only lately they have come around.
The dresses sent did not quite hold out, but sufficed to supply the most needy, and, in fact, the greater number.
He called meeting after meeting, and was unwearied in his efforts to induce the financiers of the State to hold out.
In the first place the boy was not built that way, and had always shown a decided disposition to hold out to the very last gasp, as every fellow should, no matter how fortune frowns down on him.
He was human like themselves, though built on different lines; and they could never hold their own respect if they refused to hold out a helping hand to an enemy in dire distress.
He is a sensible man: how he came to hold out at all, is to me a matter of surprise.
I want to do for the best,' said Darby; 'and it seems to me that to hold out is for the worse.
Davoust and Mortier were left at Krasnoi with orders to hold out as long as possible in the hope of being there joined by Ney.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold out" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
