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Example sentences for "holding her"

  • Jasper, holding her hand so tightly that she winced a bit, "tell me quickly, dear.

  • The moment the girl had left the room she tore open the envelope, and, holding her breath, read what was written within.

  • Holding her breath, she strained her ears.

  • He hid his face on her shoulder, holding her clasped.

  • Mrs. Radford, large and threatening, stood suspended on the hearthrug, holding her fork.

  • He kneeled there, holding her hand, and neither said anything.

  • Very well, my dear," said the little woman, holding her head on one side to listen in the same birdlike way adopted by her husband.

  • Be it so, then," he said, holding her hand in his in a sad, resigned way.

  • She opened it an inch, holding her breath.

  • Ten days later, at Mildenham station, holding her father's hand, Gyp could scarcely see him for the mist before her eyes.

  • Holding her breath, stifling the sound of her feet, she glided down the stairs, slipped back the chain of the front door, opened it, and fled.

  • For indeed she was spending this night entranced, with the feeling that Lennan was beside her, holding her hand in his.

  • She clung to him, and a fever went stealing through his veins; he butted forward at the crowd, holding her tight.

  • The Madonna, holding her Child, is seated in a landscape under a tree, and turns her head to the Bishop St. Petronius, protector of Bologna.

  • He had helped her out and stood holding her hand as one old enough to be her father.

  • A half-grown boy stood by her, holding her hand.

  • He crushed her hands once more to his breast as he had done on the Great North Trail, holding her so close that he could feel the throbbing of her bosom against him.

  • In the study Clotilde was buttoning her dress, holding her child, whom she had been nursing, still in her lap.

  • And Clotilde, seized by a sort of awe, feeling the presence of the fate which rules over races, left the room softly, holding her breath; for she knew that it would mortify him exceedingly if he knew that she had been present.

  • When she was at the other end before the door of the doctor's room, she bent forward, holding her breath.

  • Then the color surged over brow and throat; she laid her hands on her hot cheeks; I took her in my arms, holding her imprisoned.

  • Then give yourself to me, Dorothy," I said, holding her imprisoned.

  • And instinctively she put out another small hand, which also he took, so holding her prisoner a moment.

  • He had stopped where the trunk of a fallen tree lay as high as his waist, and on this he seated the girl, holding her there in the crook of his arm.

  • He found that by holding her higher in his arms, with her own arms encircling his shoulders, it was easier to run with her at the pace he had set for himself.

  • He had, so to speak, rolled Dolores round his neck, holding her legs, head and arms in front of him and crushing them to his chest with his rifle and his brawny arms.

  • Standing close up to her, with his eyes plumbing hers, holding her fingers in his, he resumed: "Why did you do that?

  • He supported her, holding her in his arms: "You're surely not wounded?

  • Then, holding her at arm's-length, he looked searchingly into her eyes.

  • Save for the whispering of wind-tossed trees, all Nature seemed hushed, expectant, holding her breath.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holding her" 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:
    after much; certain people; circumstances would; distinct species; flesh greenish; half smile; highly satisfactory; holding fast; holding her; holding the; holding them; more time; olive branch; part payment; party government; que les; round them; should probably; stretched himself; thou lovest; west longitude; white water; wild turkeys; wishes were; young knight