Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hold (in)
Verb
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Check and uncheck the boxes next each candidate to show/hide their responses.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Mar. 2026 -
Like a quintessential spy movie montage, Kennedy’s inner circle started hatching a plan on how to hide the president’s son and a princess.—
Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Doja’s assistant slips through, gives me the thumbs-up, and ushers me into a dressing room the size of a tennis court, black velvet curtains concealing the walls.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2026
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Beyond that, the county has concealed most legal bills from the process — fees paid to outside lawyers and investigators who built the case against Corpus and looked into her counter-accusations — citing attorney-client privilege.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2026
Verb
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As it had been abandoned in 1968, its location was veiled until now.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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Dusting windshields, coating sidewalks and veiling Atlanta’s spring sunshine in a golden haze.—
Nancy Badertscher,
AJC.com,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Such places are pristine and beautiful, though also frighteningly artificial, often masking a simmering violence.—
Chase Hutchinson,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2026
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Curls may gradually loosen as strands weaken, and frizz can sometimes mask thinning early on.—
Allison Palmer,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Interference from Starlink and other satellites has already become frustratingly routine for astronomers, hampering science as celestial objects are obscured, and the problem is only going to get worse.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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Often, the design’s playfulness obscures the protagonist’s malaise.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
Verb
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While Preston is standing in a river cloaked in celestial mist, his family is living in hell — aka New York City.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2026
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Nearly 100,000 visitors pilgrimage to the area annually to witness a forest canopy cloaked in orange-and-black wings.—
Jen Murphy,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Hold (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hold%20%28in%29. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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