hold your

Example Sentences

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I didn’t know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash.

From Literature

I stepped back and said, “I’m not going to hold your hand. What’s the matter with you?”

From Literature

“Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don’t you surrender. Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint,” Jackson said.

From Salon

“I’m explaining everything from how you throw your trash in the trash can to how you hold your pencil,” Clark said.

From Los Angeles Times

When Lindo saw the movie that first time, the monologue had been truncated, and the scene preceding it, where their car passes a chain gang and Delta Slim stands and exhorts the prisoners to “hold your heads,” was gone too.

From Los Angeles Times