Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hold (in)
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Viruses, as well as small bits of vegetation and invasive zebra mussel larvae, can hide in the plumbing of your rig.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025 -
And don’t spend the evening apologizing or hiding in the kitchen.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
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Though the structures appear to only be heads, many of them have full bodies that have been concealed by sediment over the centuries.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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Thick and fast-growing, the greenery conceals a chain-link fence that helps with crowd control between the stands and field.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
18 Oct. 2025
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Many times, the characters Jaglom played in his films were thinly veiled versions of himself.—
Chris Koseluk,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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In the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, the famous skies were veiled by a freak sandstorm from the Sahara.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
16 Sep. 2025
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Reddin and the other candidates ran, in part, in strong opposition to mask mandates during COVID-19.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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But those gains masked Macy’s problems.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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In a 2023 report in Science, their team found that morphogens were indeed secreted just before a feather follicle started to bud.—
Anna Demming,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Oct. 2025
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Melatonin Melatonin is a hormone secreted primarily by the pineal gland (located deep in the brain).—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
10 Oct. 2025
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The department, run by State Superintendent Jill Underly, relies on a rudimentary system to track its investigations, obscuring the scale of misconduct for policymakers and the public.—
Danielle DuClos,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead, two wannabe criminals, with their faces obscured by pantyhose, simply walk into the local art museum and rip the paintings right off the walls.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
17 Oct. 2025
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Based on the Peter Straub novel of the same name, John Irvin's chilly and affecting Ghost Story is cloaked in snow, leather, and firelight.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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Krasznahorkai eventually found a global cult audience, who recognized his distinct ability to cloak anomie, violence, and resignation, smudged with a kind of gutter comedy, within a labyrinthine syntax.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Hold (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hold%20%28in%29. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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