Lord Hawke, "were sailors indeed, but only able to hold their own by adopting the boisterous manners of the hardy tarpaulin.
This result was inevitable; it was yearly becoming less possible for small States to hold their own.
The result was that it was all they could do not merely to hold their own, but to avoid a very serious disaster.
It was all that the stormers could do to hold their ground, as they were enfiladed by a Vickers-Maxim, and exposed to showers of shrapnel as well as to an incessant rifle fire.
Our entire grain and cotton crops must be transported at rates which will enable them to hold their own in European markets.
The mills in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas are so much nearer than those in Florida or Georgia, that exceptionally low rates per mile must be put in from these latter states to enable them to hold their own.
This, of course, entailed a diversion of corn from the Chicago railways, which promptly reduced rates in order to hold their traffic.
The trunk lines insisted upon such specially low charges on small shipments as would enable manufacturers and jobbers in the East tohold their markets in remote districts in competition with rivals in the Middle West.
Then somebody cried out in the crowd to hold their position.
Some of the mob also read messages purporting to come from other places, urging them to hold their ground, and assistance in men and means would be sent them.
They said they did not see how they could make any defense or hold their arms, because they were alone, and had not found their officers, and did not know what to do.
I directed my adjutant-general to notify each of the division commanders of my absence and instruct them to do nothing to bring on an engagement until they received further orders, but to hold their positions.
Direct corps commanders to hold their troops in readiness to march at five A.
This brigade was furiously attacked; but the remainder of the division coming up, they were enabled to hold their position, and soon fortified it.
All such were depleted to the minimum necessary to hold their positions as a guard against blockade runners; where they could not do this their positions were abandoned altogether.
One or two who hinted at a suspicion when they were alone with Kapchack the Second received promises of vast rewards to hold their tongues; and no sooner had they left his presence than he had them assassinated.
I do not allow any fighting, or killing, in my copse, and that is the reason all the birds and animals come here to hold their meetings, because they know it is a sanctuary.
Other members of the Turkish Cabinet made a demonstration of attempting to hold their country to an uneasy neutrality.
However, in spite of all these movements, the Serbians were able to hold their own.
Had they been able to hold their grip, then they could have straightened out their entire line from north to south, and Warsaw would have been safe.
By this movement the Serbians succeeded in driving in a wedge and completely cut off the three beaten and fleeing corps in the south from the two in the north, which were still showing some disposition to hold their ground.
I gathered from one or two of the few most slightly wounded men that our people had been, and were, very hardly put to it to hold their own.
The British liners commissioned as commerce-protectors were too few and too slow, with the single exception of the Mauretania, to be able to hold their adversaries in check.
They used to hold their meetings at the Queen of Bohemia's Head, Drury Lane, but on the pulling down of that house the society was dissolved.
They used to hold their meetings in the Groat Market of that town.
While he stayed in England he began preaching again, and found that now, under William and Mary, the Quakers were allowed the fullest liberty to hold their meetings, and that religious persecution was a thing of the past.
The Catholics, the Puritans, the Presbyterians, and others had never hesitated to hold their meetings in secret when the laws seemed too severe against them.
He was alone in the hovel knocked together by the men to hold their tools, and the work for which he had given his life was being claimed outside by another man.
Swan crawled into a shanty the men had put up to hold their tools, and wrapping himself in a blanket, slept until the storm was over.
In this rude shanty, knocked together by the workmen to hold their tools, on a heap of sacks and blankets, Swan lay as he had dropped the night before.
As to the tenure by which the judges are to hold their places; this chiefly concerns their duration in office; the provisions for their support; the precautions for their responsibility.
The tenure by which the judges are to hold their places, is, as it unquestionably ought to be, that of good behavior.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold their" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
