hold down
Example Sentences
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The duo will hold down the fort from Times Square beginning at 5 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
When you are rushing around, trying to do everything for your children and hold down a demanding job, how are there enough hours in the day?
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
Plus, the Federal Reserve plans to buy hundreds of billions of short-term Treasury bonds annually, another move that would pump money into the financial system and hold down rates.
From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025
Those are tactics “neither employers nor employees like but companies resort to in a pinch to hold down premium increases,” he noted.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 22, 2025
Second, Mr. Kleiman hasn’t returned to work since the last time his stomach started bleeding, so Bep’s been left to hold down the fort alone.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
