hold together

verb

held together; holding together; holds together

1

: to stay joined together or in one piece

The empire held together for many decades.

2

: to cause (something) to stay joined together or in one piece

The coach hopes to hold the team together for at least one more season.

The box was held together by a strong glue.

Examples of hold together in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One room had a baby gate affixed to the outside of the door frame, held together with numerous zip ties and duct tape, police said. — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026

Whether a constellation like this holds together depends on some massive assumptions that will only be put to the test in the coming years, when SpaceX starts to launch its first AI1 satellites. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026

For the past 33 months, the demands of wartime have held together an unruly coalition government in Israel dominated by hard-right and religious parties. — Ian Bremmer, Time, 14 July 2026

Other Stones records contain more classics and better production, but none holds together as well as a whole or comes as close to the sublime as this one. — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Rhymes for hold together

• altogether
• aether
• gether
• heather
• leather
• nether
• tether
• weather
• wether
• whether