Sentence for holding | Use holding in a sentence

Sentences using the word holding. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use holding in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for holding.

• He found himself holding his hat. (10)
• She opened it an inch, holding her breath. (8)
• Fiorsen laughed; he laughed, holding his sides. (8)
• He stood in the Hall, holding Vernon by the arm. (10)
• Do not run away the first moment of its holding up. (4)
• And holding up his thin, veined hand, he clenched it. (8)
• He is holding out a visiting card with tremulous hand.] (8)
• He wound up the lamp, holding her still with one hand. (10)
• It came from Dominique, who was holding out a pair of boots. (8)
• There at the door was Markey, holding in his hand some cards. (8)
• She stood holding by a beech-branch, gazing down on the water. (10)
• Holding the tree tight, she squeezed its smooth body against her. (8)
• I like you the better for holding to her through thick and thin. (22)
• Now, at last, he felt that he was holding up his end of the rope. (9)
• Now, as then, the grace Of heaven seems holding earth in its embrace. (10)
• He leaned out, now munching, now holding his jaws to hear the music better. (8)
• There was no one outside, but at the entrance a man was holding some horses. (8)
• And holding her fingers tight, he kept on murmuring words of would-be comfort. (8)
• He stands holding by the door knob, staring before him, with a beatific smile. (8)
• Petty was holding to his lips, he sank almost immediately into a deep slumber. (8)
• Next day Heriot walked slowly past Mr. Boddy holding the portrait in his hands. (10)
• The old man was walking very rapidly, holding out the fragment of a broken stick. (8)
• A thin, refined man, with wiry hair, also came up, holding a newspaper in his hand. (8)
• She grasped the hand, and shut her eyes to make a long age of the holding on to him. (10)
• She put into his hands a little card, which she had been holding clasped in her palm. (13)
• He stands erect, motionless, holding his sabre in his right hand straight above his head. (1)
• He came forward to meet her in the entry, holding out his hand with open-hearted frankness. (5)
• A small groom stood there, holding a silver-roan cob with a black mane and black swish tail. (8)
• And just behind the closed door, as near as he could get to her, he stood, holding his breath. (8)
• What we had found was a line of battle, coolly holding its fire till it could count our teeth. (7)
• She then shut herself in again, with the effect of holding him accountable for the whole affair. (9)
• There was Laurence himself, holding in his hand a great bunch of pink lilies and white narcissi. (8)
• By holding his peace he locked out the sense of shame which speech would have stirred within him. (10)
• By holding his peace he locked out the sense of shame which speech would have stirred within him. (22)
• His sisters, weeping for their father and holding aloof from his ashes, Evan swept from his mind. (10)
• And she felt that he was holding himself in with all his might from taking her again into his arms. (8)
• How fair and pretty she was, bent diligently, holding up her brush, measuring, wrinkling her brows. (8)
• Holding up the paper to the light, he makes as if to begin, then slides his eye round, tantalizing.] (8)
• I wanted to laugh and I wanted to cry, and ended by holding my peace and feeling devoutly thankful. (14)
• Mollie was there holding court, entertaining a group of the younger men with her brilliant repartee. (18)
• At the top of the third flight she paused for breath, and holding on to the bannisters, stood listening. (8)
• Her pretty lace was all torn; her shoulders were red where his hands had gripped her, holding himself up. (8)
• She was holding a magazine before her eyes, and received him with as much relief as philosophy permitted. (8)
• At Hyde Park Corner he ran into George Forsyte, very sunburnt from racing, holding a false nose in his hand. (8)
• She poured forth her little flood of amiable sentences, while the bookbinder stood quietly holding his wheel. (13)
• Whereupon Robert took his arm, and holding the scraggy wretch forward, commanded him to out with what he knew. (22)
• Ashurst sat down at once on the sofa, holding his lame knee between his hands, and Mrs. Narracombe gazed at him. (8)
• Still holding that hand before his mouth, and smothering the sound of his feet in the long grass, he crept away. (8)
• But he would not have had me too learned, holding that he had himself been hurt for literature by his scholarship. (9)
• He would be the first of the Forsytes to reach that age, and set, as it were, a new standard in holding on to life. (8)
• In his best holiday costume of black velvet puffed with silk he entered the laboratory, holding himself very erect. (5)
• Nicholas Treffry was coming from the house, holding the Times in one hand, and a huge meerschaum pipe in the other. (8)
• A half-intoxicated old ruffian, a policeman, and a man in a straw hat had stopped below, and were holding a palaver. (8)
• But what if there might not be greater safety in holding tenaciously to Clara than in casting her off for Laetitia? (10)
• For indeed she was spending this night entranced, with the feeling that Lennan was beside her, holding her hand in his. (8)
• She took the pillow up, holding it as if reluctant to shake out the impress of his cheek, dropped it, and turned round. (8)
• Mrs. Shelton rocked her foot, and, holding her head on one side like a little bird, looked at her son with shining eyes. (8)
• He stood swaying a little, holding on to the table, till the servant, having finished serving dinner, brought in his port. (8)
• She broke off to address the woman who had now come back and was holding up the trailing breadths of the electric-blue gauze. (9)
• The tall young man, divested of hat and coat, is standing by her table, holding out his hand with a sort of bashful hardiness. (8)
• Lottie instantly rose, and flung her sister the wrap she had been holding ready to shed from the moment the young man had come up. (9)
• Before we could reach them he had pulled her up to the driveway, and stood holding her there while she crazily grieved at her rescue. (9)
• Anthony caught the smile, hesitated and looked shrewd, and then covered his confusion by holding his plate to Mrs. Sumfit for a help. (22)
• She expected him in this event to do as he pleased, and she resigned herself to it with considerable comfort in holding him accountable. (9)
• A gentleman in the stalls, a head beneath her, bowed, and holding up a singular article, gravely said that he had been requested to pass it. (10)
• When Felix had read these words he remained absolutely still, holding that buff-colored paper before his face, trying to decide what he must do now. (8)
• A very elegant bathroom may also be equipped with built-in receptacles in the tile wainscot for holding soap, sponges, toilet-paper, tumblers, tooth-brushes, etc. (17)

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