How to Use holdover in a Sentence

holdover

1 of 2 noun

• He is the only holdover from their last championship team.
• This policy is a holdover from the previous administration.
• So – once again – Square Enix must release a holdover for fans.
  — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2022
• Quinerly is one of the few holdovers from that game on either team.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• Jose Altuve is a longtime fan favorite, and the lone holdover from the dismal days of the early 2010s.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 15 Nov. 2022
• Region locking is just a crappy holdover from the DVD era.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
• Special assistant to the head coach James Schmeits is the lone holdover from Lansing's staff.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2021
• The availability of one key holdover from last year is in question.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2022
• The sign on the door is not a holdover from some earlier stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
• All these pieces complement the bird on her head — a holdover from the original story.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• This is a holdover from the island's colonial-era past, prior to the purchase by the U.S. and its transition of power in 1917.
  — Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2022
• In fact, some of the deals listed below are holdovers from the retailer’s big Samsung 4K TV sale last week.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
• Wilson would replace Shane Bowen, who is a holdover from coach Mike Vrbael’s staff.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• The holdover was welcome news to residents of Church Street East, who asked for a delay during the meeting.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2022
• The few holdover players from last year have noticed the differences more than the many newcomers.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Running backs coach Shaun Aguano served as interim coach and remained on staff, the lone holdover from the Edwards regime.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
• Ortiz, Pedroia, and Lester formed the reliable holdover core.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
• But Victor Caratini, the team's holdover backup, is off to a great start himself.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2023
• Guard Lexie Brown, a key holdover from the end of the Fisher era, missed the majority of the season because of an illness.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Tight ends coach Stephen Field is the only holdover from last year’s assistant coaching staff.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• O’Leary expects the movies to perform well for weeks to come, noting there’s been a rise over the past several years in very strong holdover weekends.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 30 July 2023
• Most exchange gifts, though, on New Year’s Day itself, in a holdover from Soviet times.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2022
• The surrounding area is a Soviet holdover, gray, run-down, weedy, and working-class.
  — Curbed, 12 May 2022
• Breeds That Bury Bones While almost any breed or mixed breed can bury bones, some are more into this holdover habit than others.
  — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2023
• In some ways, AMC Networks is a holdover from an earlier media age.
  — Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• Elsewhere at the box office, three holdovers from Disney rounded out the top of North American charts.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 June 2023
• Jacob Zeno and Harrison Barker are the only holdovers from last year’s team.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 30 Aug. 2023
• Though the head coach is gone — and in USF’s case, so is the defensive coordinator — there is still a lot of holdover amidst a coaching change.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
• Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, is a holdover from the bad old days, a relic of the Republican Party that was.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
• The program is a holdover from the Clean Ohio Fund that was created by a state bond initiative approved by voters in 2000.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 26 July 2022

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hold over

2 of 2 verb

• The top 10% of households hold over 68% of the wealth in the U.S.
  — Marick Masters, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2023
• In the first clip, Wren was held over the basin as his full head of hair was washed.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• In the first clip, Wren is held over the basin as his full head of hair gets washed.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• The king is hidden from view by a gold cloth held over the chair.
  — USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• The funds delivered each month will hold over into the next.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Arab Spring forced Saleh out of office in 2012, even as the Houthis expanded their hold over the north.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• Our conference calls are held over video, and no one mentions the hole.
  — Simon Rich, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
• Live sessions are held over video, phone, or chat, and last 45 minutes.
  — Brittany Vargas, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• Think: the sun’s hold over distant planets, or the journey light from far-off stars makes across the universe.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2022
• The large size can hold over 40mL of fluid, keeping you leak-free even on heavier flow days.
  — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2022
• This year marks the first time Genius Week will be held over multiple evenings.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• That doesn’t mean letting go of what the person did to us, but in letting go of the power that person holds over us.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Horse racing is all about the Triple Crown, three races for 3-year-olds held over a five-week period.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• That was before his Friday tweet that the $44 billion deal was now on hold over how many of the platform's accounts were spam or fake.
  — David Zurawik, CNN, 16 May 2022
• The policy is a key finger of the vice-like grip that private vehicles hold over U.S. cities.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
• Early debates are held over the summer, but campaigns kick into gear in the fall.
  — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2024
• In total, these pages hold over 484 million pieces of data, from a lengthy synopsis of a movie to its exact run time.
  — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• The cleaning was part of a durational performance piece, held over three days, put on by three women artists.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• As the trend has taken a hold over TikTok, some brands are getting involved in the conversation.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• Most lakes will hold over 40 species of zooplankton and play a crucial and central role in freshwater food webs.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
• The draft is being held over two days this year in Nashville, Tennessee, with Rounds 2-7 scheduled for Thursday.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 26 June 2023
• Several of the ice makers on sale today start pumping out ice cubes in less than ten minutes, and most can hold over 20 pounds of ice at a time.
  — Amber Joglar, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2022
• This steam cleaner holds over a liter of water, which should last about 40 to 45 minutes before needing to be refilled.
  — Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2023
• Disney's Frozen entered our lives almost a decade ago, but its hold over its fans certainly has not waned with time.
  — Cassidy Olsen and Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 4 Dec. 2022
• Finger foods: Finger foods are ideal to hold over hungry guests until the main entree is ready.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 7 Feb. 2024
• Hezbollah realizes that a full-scale conflict might weaken its hold over Lebanon and will try to avoid such an outcome.
  — Michael Young, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2023
• The win also snaps the four-game winning streak that Virginia Union held over the Rams — a stretch that includes the semifinal in last year’s tournament.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
• To hold over any fans really jonesing for some stick-and-puck, the NHL’s yearly prospects tournament started up Thursday night.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• In the eight months since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a rare level of transatlantic consensus has taken hold over the need to support Ukraine.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
• His hold on the party elite seems unassailable; his hold over parts of society, especially the young, seems less sure.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024