Sentence for held | Use held in a sentence

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• He held out his hand. (8)
• She held out her hand. (8)
• The hour held breath. (10)
• He held them in position. (9)
• Gregory held out his hand. (8)
• Ashurst held out his pouch. (8)
• Laxley, however, held aloof. (10)
• She held out a bunch to him. (10)
• Dan held the match over his head. (8)
• Dr. Middleton held it open to him. (10)
• For he had held a Queen to his heart! (10)
• He held the locket between his fingers. (22)
• She held up her blossom in the moonlight. (8)
• Emilia held a letter over to Sir Purcell. (10)
• They held a dark unspoken secret in common. (10)
• He held it in hand and probed it mercifully. (10)
• He held out his hand, and she put hers in it. (9)
• I held out against Wagner as long as I could. (10)
• He noticed that the magazine she held was uncut. (8)
• Nedda got possession of his hand and held it tight. (8)
• She sat at the bedside for hours and held my hands. (12)
• Ferrand gave his hand a stealthy rub, and held it out. (8)
• He approached her and held her by his vivid eloquence. (12)
• He jumped out, and held a hand for them to do the same. (10)
• None the less were the Yankee invaders held responsible. (7)
• The magnetism with which she held him reacted on herself. (8)
• Extravagant ideas are held as to the height of an elephant. (21)
• No man ever did brave work who held counsel with his family. (10)
• The French still held the positions at Niagara and Crown Point. (19)
• She held the glass, attempted, and was baffled by the reek of it. (10)
• She stood, with one paw delicately held up above the topmost step. (8)
• She held out both her hands, and Jon grasped them across the table. (8)
• He held out the papers, regarding his elder brother with nervous gloom. (8)
• During the entire fight the enemy held the slight wooded acclivity beyond. (7)
• It held a cottage piano and little else save a vague fragrance and good taste. (8)
• He strode jauntily to the verge of the board, and held his finger for Margarita to follow. (10)
• She held out her hand, and turning her head aside, made room for me on the sofa beside her. (6)
• At the office of Milling & FitzMaurice, a hasty consultation was held between the partners. (18)
• Thus the simple charge that the Associated Press is a monopoly cannot be held to condemn it. (16)
• He remembered the expression on his face while his mother was refusing the hand he had held out. (8)
• They held each to the rail of the big bed where they had spent so many years of nights together. (8)
• He enlarged upon her frock afterwards to Aunt Juley, who held up her hands at his way of putting it. (8)
• With a jerky motion he opened a choice bivalve and held it up for Barclugh to eat on the half-shell. (18)
• Adrian did not want me to go but my father said I should accompany him and held my hand all the time. (10)
• Her little brown spaniel, very old, who seemed only to have held on to life just for her return, died. (8)
• She let my father kiss her hand when he was bending to take his farewell of her, but held her face away. (10)
• Flushed with this victory, Duvivier marched by land to Annapolis, held for the English by Paul Mascarene. (19)
• He held her embraced, feeling her body as if it were in the awful grip of fingers from the outside of life. (10)
• Dahlia took from her bosom the letter she had won in the morning, and held it open in both hands to read it. (22)
• The exercises were held in the pretty little auditorium which occupied one wing of the large school building. (13)
• She still held the sheet in her hand, and was shouting to the angry elements the magic formulas which it contained. (5)
• Hart found Graves in his inner office, while a clerk held at bay a roomful of men who wanted to get at the contractor. (13)
• He held good cards and rose the winner of five pounds that he would willingly have paid to escape the boredom of the bout. (8)
• Flora, whose sense of humor seldom deserted her, held the more comfortable theory that there was nothing to be done as yet. (8)
• The roe is held together by a net-work of delicate fibres and a gelatinous substance not unlike thin starch in appearance. (20)
• This occupied the court and held public attention for many weeks, being bitterly contested by both prosecution and defense. (7)
• Their defenders entered the houses right and left during the cannonade, waiting to meet the charge; but the Austrians held off. (10)
• The tears streamed down her cheeks, and in her lovely humility he saw the baseness of that pride of his which had hitherto held him up. (10)
• An intemperate creature held by the collar may have that notion of me, while pulling to be released as promptly as it entered the noose. (10)
• Soon afterwards he was crowned, not duke, but king, and it was remarked that he held his lace handkerchief oftener than ever to his mouth. (5)
• Rozsi held back from him, swayed forward and buried her face on his breast…. Half an hour later Swithin was pacing up and down his room. (8)
• He caught up the flat woolen steamer-cap which Clementina had left in her seat beside Mrs. Milray when she rose to dance, and held it aloft. (9)

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Definition of held:

• held, pa.t. and pa.p. of hold_.(0)

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