hold in
Example Sentences
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Los Angeles resident Bianca Slaughter was arrested Tuesday and is currently being held in lieu of $100,000, according a Los Angeles Police Department news release and booking records.
From Los Angeles Times
And when “Happy New Year” took hold in Vietnam, my family had learned “Auld Lang Syne” in the West.
From Salon
The latter of these books was written while Ngũgĩ was being held in a Nairobi jail as a political prisoner.
From BBC
It also said it "may need to reconsider" the release of 18 Cambodian soldiers held in Thailand since July.
From BBC
One potential big move could be to sell chunks or even the entirety of the $50 billion stake that Nestlé holds in L’Oréal, which some investors want to see cashed out.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.