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EN[ˈhoːldɪŋ] [ˈhəʉɫdɪŋ] [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ] [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ] [-əʊldɪŋ]
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    Examples of holding in a Sentence

  • Examples of holding
    1. While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics. ‎
    2. The design has had a rather contentious journey through the various technical committees set up by the EEC to study the problem; individual member nations with particular axes to grind holding up the proceedings at regular intervals.
    3. The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall. — Second progress report on the Buncefield investigation [1]
    4. Care should be taken when holding babies. ‎
    5. Meanwhile, Macpherson stood just outside the door, holding a cold chisel which he had taken from a dungaree pocket [...] and there Mr. Willison found him.
    6. Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag. ‎
  • Examples of holdings
    1. The proposal on swaps dealers would include antifraud and antimanipulation provisions as well as potential limits on market positions and holdings.
    2. And policy makers and currency traders are once again hypervigilant for signs that Asian central banks might redeploy part of their dollar-based debt holdings into non-American investments.
    3. For decades, the name "Hearst" meant megamedia -- an empire of dozens of opinionated news-papers, magazines, broadcast properties, a movie studio and expansive real estate holdings as well as a great art collection.
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