How to Use holding in a Sentence

holding

1 of 2 noun
  • For some, gold will remain the core holding.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The holding is narrow in this sense.
    — Kevin Cope, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Some holdings will grow faster than others.
    — Doug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • So, for now, a holding pattern.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Apple’s is the firm’s largest holding.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 1 June 2026
  • All of those tech giants are Club holdings.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 23 June 2026
  • All of which made the scale of Soloviev’s holdings a concern.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Curbed, 22 June 2026
  • No court decision will pry loose any of those holdings.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That would have increased the value of their holdings as yields fell.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The sale reduced his holdings by 2%.
    — Nick Wells,sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, the hedge fund pared back several holdings.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 15 May 2026
  • Turner would use much of his land holdings as a base from which to raise bison.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 May 2026
  • One of the tactics that strikes me is boundary-holding.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That makes Amazon the fund's third-largest holding.
    — Sean Conlon,pia Singh, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
  • No more holding on corners… but pushing is fine?
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Hand placement here gets you called for holding, hand placement there doesn’t.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Each holding room has a single open toilet.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The sale reduced his holdings by 28%.
    — Nick Wells,sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The sale reduced his holdings by 20%.
    — Nick Wells,sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • He was flagged twice on the same series — to open the third quarter — for holding and a false start.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The overcrowded makeshift holding room grew hot and rancid as the sun rose in the sky.
    — Emily Wilder, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The saver is told the holding is the sensible, boring sort.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • But until the early nineties, breath-holding wasn’t a sport but a means to a living.
    — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • By market value, the holdings are worth more than double that.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, space tourism is currently in a holding pattern.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • All the moves go through the 28-year-old holding midfielder.
    — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Many of their holdings are salvaged from attics, antique shops, book fairs, and garage sales.
    — Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There’s going to be some new managers in some of those major holdings coming in.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • Seek out less costly options and make your current holdings work harder for you.
    — Danielle Higley, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The group outlined big plans for its new holdings in a news release Thursday.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026

holding

2 of 2 adjective
  • The troops were engaged in a holding action until reinforcements could arrive.
  • There were seven offensive penalties, most holding or false starts.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Like the non-holding call against TCU on the Frogs’ first touchdown drive.
    — Kirk Bohls, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Please explain how holding secret meetings on the health care bill relates to consent of the governed.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
  • This, combined with raising rates, is bad for the whole food chain including our holding Boeing.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Here’s how holding office affects Florida lawmakers’ incomes But surprisingly, Florida lawmakers did not boost their incomes while in office.
    — Kevin Fahey, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Inspectors observed several critical violations, including improper cold and hot holding temperatures, unsafe food storage, and inadequate handwashing and glove practices, city officials said.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026

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