Meanings of hold still for in English

You don't think they're going to hold still for this, do you?

Come, father, just hold still for a moment and put it on.

For you will not hold still for me, my unknown reader.

Put her where she'll hold still for a day, or maybe two days-

Do you think she's going to hold still for it?

They hold still for several minutes, then change position.

Just hold still for a couple of minutes.

If I didn't nobody'd hold still for treatment.

Try to hold still for a second.

Butterflies will lick the sweat from your skin for the salt, but usually you have to hold still for it.

He needed to stand up and adjust it, but Keller kept yelling for them to hold still for a couple more.

Joe Chessman growled, We've got to let them know where we stand, right now, or they'll never hold still for us.

And Ruiz can't quite hold still for anything as cold-blooded as that, so he's about made up his mind to pull out.

After she had managed to hold still for an entire minute, Liz picked up her phone and hit her dad's number on speed-dial.

Griffith wouldn't hold still for the clamps-whichwe had to borrow from the neighbor, since Tristan owns nothing more than a hammer and a screwdriver.

Habrunt trembled in agony at this, but when he realized who she was, he somehow managed to hold still for it, although with much difficulty.