hold one's own

Example Sentences

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It’s a hard sound to land without veering into pastiche, let alone to hold one’s own amid the heavy arrangements.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2019

Being required to hold one’s own against the then seven-time Oscar-nominated acting legend might have daunted some actors, but the young woman from Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire seemed surprised at the suggestion.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2017

This word "hduze" means to take or hold one's own; and is most commonly applied to a man's taking a wife, or a woman a husband.

From Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages From the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution by Gatschet, Albert Samuel

Mrs. Siddons would have been at home there, for there was nothing for it but to stab the potatoes, and all one's cunning of fence was needed to hold one's own with the chops.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

To hear what is going on in the intellectual line, to ventilate ideas, to write, to teach—that's a fine life—to be able to hold one's own in talk and discussion—that's where we country people fail.

From Watersprings by Benson, Arthur Christopher