How to Use hold against in a Sentence

hold against

verb

• They are being held against their will.
  — ABC News, 28 May 2026
• If payment was not made, they would be held against their will.
  — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• That’s about the same width as an outstretched fist held against the sky.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• The poor curator is copping it but it shouldn’t be held against him.
  — Paul Newman, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
• Mirella has since spoken out, saying she was not being held against her will.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
• Framed by the window, the trees and the snow and the sky are like paper cutouts held against each other.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
• It is held against you as evidence of your poor character.
  — Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
• Perhaps that’s also what the Oscars are ‘holding against’ her.
  — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 17 Mar. 2026
• Reports about Pace’s hefty rent obligations have been held against Glimcher and the gallery for years.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 9 June 2026
• So the fact that Warsh has a mere JD from Harvard Law School should not be held against him.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• Here is a parcel flat enough for a football pitch and oversized swimming pool, held against the neighborhood’s wild geology.
  — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Their performance in Tallahassee shouldn't be held against the Tide all season.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
• Conversely, struggling in the tournament wouldn’t be held against a prospect who had played well all season, an executive said.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
• For the person on the grudge is being held against, this make their relationship with the holder feel shaky to the point of unpredictability.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• In other words, did Ross assure him that it wouldn’t be held against him if Ewers struggled and Miami was blown out?
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Dec. 2025
• Maybe this is about the angst Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds against Cuba.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
• The remaining stretch will test whether the distribution holds against top units and across the attrition of a long NFL season.
  — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• Compound workers told the FBI that they were held against their will and forced to participate in the scams under the threat of violence.
  — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
• Lowe did not testify at trial, exercising her Fifth Amendment right, a decision the judge noted should not be held against her.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026
• There is a new sense of accountability held against teams to put on their best performances every single game because the luxurious days of two-legged meetings are gone.
  — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• Sonos is an edge case, so that's hardly something to hold against Bose—but a subwoofer is going to give content the bass that the soundbar on its own can't physically produce.
  — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 16 May 2026
• His mother, Janet Arvizo, also claimed that her family was held against their will at the ranch, The Guardian reported.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
• This voyeurism will later be held against Helm during the puritanical trend (big misunderstanding).
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• The victim, who was being held against hit will in Kelly's truck, called 911 and was providing real-time location updates.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2026
• It cannot be held against us that names of the complicit employees of DHS or other government figures in the know are being hidden from us.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026
• In that 2013 interview, Smith was referring to the national headlines that three women held against their will for a decade in the home of a Cleveland man had been found.
  — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
• Pessimism also holds against optimism that the future is radically open, pregnant with an unknowable possibility.
  — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
• Upon arriving at the home, police found that the child’s mother was allegedly being held against her will by 29-year-old Glenroy Miller of the Bahamas.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
• His game absolutely diminished in the playoffs for most of his career, which is certainly something that should be held against him when comparing him to other NFL greats.
  — Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• In Cambodia, more than 200,000 scam workers have been released from fortified compounds, where many of them had been trafficked, held against their will, and forced to work for little pay.
  — NPR, 21 June 2026