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Meanings of hold back in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "keep"
Examples for "keep"
1
Good social work needs community safety networks to keep each other safe.
2
Just keep listening; engage with the problem, ask more and more questions.
3
The government will keep introducing measures to help the economy, he said.
4
However, he said high demand would keep values from falling too far.
5
Drain once cool; don't keep in the iced water longer than necessary.
1
I said in the trouble of the moment, unable to restrain myself.
2
A senior loyalist source said it would be difficult to restrain militants.
3
Currently teachers can't physically restrain students unless they're a danger to others.
4
Potations do sometimes wake wines; turnips restrain passion; causes necessary to state.
5
But in the end he could not restrain himself and blurted out:
1
However, he could not suppress a faint hope and he listened carefully.
2
Misfortune cannot suppress it; enmity cannot alienate it; temptation cannot enslave it.
3
The second, and this may end next year, was to suppress volatility.
4
It is not to suppress the Irish commissioner, or the French commissioner.
5
Do you work with fact checkers to suppress false news and hoaxes?
1
The only way to keep back brute panic was not to think.
2
Yet I did not know how to keep back the vital question.
3
He could not keep back the break that was in his breath.
4
He could not keep back the words that rose to his tongue.
5
She tried hard to keep back the tears, and rose to go.
Usage of hold back in английском
1
Environment groups welcomed the decision of states to hold back their approval.
2
She wanted to hold back, afraid to allow such vulnerability in herself.
3
Hoffa said the union was not trying to hold back technological advancements.
4
Utterly lost in the moment, the chief engineer continued to hold back.
5
A video posted on Twitter shows police attempting to hold back demonstrators.
6
And don't try hold back the tears, you won't be able to.
7
Just when he could no longer hold back the tears, she came.
8
The young elfess watched Elodssa go, trying to hold back her tears.
9
He could no longer afford to hold back, as he once had.
10
Finally he could not hold back any longer and laughed out loud.
11
Why hold back tears of mourning for a good and gentle person?
12
I can't hold back the tears fueled by hope, inspiration, and drive.
13
You hold yourself back, and you hold back those who love you.
14
The people were on the alert, nor did the conspirators hold back.
15
I want to smash the glass after it, but I hold back.
16
This speech sounds grand, but I have to hold back my groan.
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Hold back through the time
Hold back across language varieties
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Common
South Africa
Common
United States of America
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