NOUN
- the flight path (usually circular) maintained by an aircraft that is awaiting permission to land
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a state of inaction with no progress and no change
you should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment
How To Use holding pattern In A Sentence
- Those labels in a holding pattern failed to generate excitement. Times, Sunday Times
- Those labels in a holding pattern failed to generate excitement. Times, Sunday Times
- The fact that the plane is in a holding pattern is a metaphor for Spain's political stasis. Times, Sunday Times
- You should go into a holding pattern until he gets over his disappointment.
- My career is in a holding pattern right now.
- Now, the bonds were there, but the proxemics had shifted, and it was beginning to dawn that we couldn't keep up our mutual holding pattern forever.
- Those labels in a holding pattern failed to generate excitement. Times, Sunday Times
- This surge of humanity has disrupted land-holding patterns and economic relationships and engendered ethnic conflict.
- The problem is, this part of the world seems to have gone into a holding pattern, glued into place by steamy days and sweltering nights that make anything but passive observation seem too athletic.
- For many of us, the hamper is like an overstock bin where clothes go into a complex holding pattern, and a quick windventory will often produce a perfectly respectable outfit. Word Fugitives
