hold together

Bloom says we ought to think of truth as resembling a scientific hypothesis that helps us hold together our bits of knowledge.

You're part of the web of tightly woven relationships, some blood, some not, that hold together a rural community.

Unfortunately, you can't hold together a high-tech oil drilling economy with baling wire and chewing gum.

They must hold together a coalition that is sliced apart by the abortion issue.

Because, we all know, football players are supposed to be too spoiled and too immature to hold together as a real union.

Mr. Bradlaugh had to hold together a different species, with leaping legs, butting horns, and a less gregarious tendency.

Will those timbers which bore us here so miraculously hold together till morning?

The contractor made each coffin last as long as the boards would hold together.

After this bath, I shall take it through one of thin size, to help the paper to hold together.

The strongest ship that ever was built could not hold together long on that sand with such a sea on as there will be there now.