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wait before acting
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resist and fight to a standoff
Dallas had enough of a lead to hold the Broncos off
How To Use hold off In A Sentence
- It was clearly a case of workers trying to use union muscle to hold off reality.
- In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
- But … we should deffo hold off on offering our congrats just yet. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » RadarOnline Insists Mariah Carey Is Pregs
- Tracking back in support of his besieged full-back, Arjen Robben seemed in control as he nursed the ball towards the end-line and used his superior size to hold off Messi.
- Well, are McCain and Palin are holding this girl now -- who apparently got impregnated at age 16, which is something that doesn't sit well with many of us, including those of who thump Bibles as if they were tympany -- in front of themselves to hold off the inevitable: McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant
- North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
- Could you hold off your decision until next week?
- Ideology could not be allowed to obstruct his party's historic duty to hold office.
- Just hold off telling the little darlings, we suggest. Times, Sunday Times
- But that tends to shrink in uncertain times, so I would hold off until the outlook becomes less cloudy. Times, Sunday Times
