hold at bay

Example Sentences

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But we may be reminded in these last episodes arriving on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s that there is no going home again when it comes to certain shows, and the unstoppable force none of us can hold at bay forever is the clock.

From Salon

Nor could it hold at bay the tweet screenshots and TikTok reuploads that thundered its way.

From Slate

The government now appears to be seriously evaluating the need to leave thousands of gallons of leftover waste buried forever in Hanford’s shallow underground tanks, according to some of those familiar with the negotiations, and protect some of the waste not in impenetrable glass, but in a concrete grout casing that would almost certainly decay thousands of years before the toxic materials that it is designed to hold at bay.

From New York Times

But Perez is joined on the front row by Alonso's Aston Martin, which Leclerc only just managed to hold at bay in Azerbaijan.

From BBC

A condition that only now, in his final hours, does Fife no longer seek to hold at bay.

From New York Times