hold up造句

But the alibi did not hold up long.

This means that mineral cosmetics hold up well in moisture.

It accelerates briskly enough not to hold up traffic.

This cool bookshelf can hold up to 400 books of different sizes.

That simplification makes it easy to get started but won't hold up over time.

Gaudi considered the Gothic style imperfect, because buttresses are needed to hold up the soaring magnificence.

Whether you get damp from sweating or being in the rain, your mineral makeup should hold up.

An aggressive troll can hold up a billion-dollar product over a patent worth a fraction of that.

You can imagine a more robust mesh of freeways that would hold up better, like one inch of snow means everything moves 10% slower, instead of 200% slower.

First, the char type has a maximum length of 254 characters, whereas the VARCHAR type can hold up to 32,672 characters.

Greece is expected to hold up better because it is less exposed to the global economy (" a good thing for a bad reason, "notes one policymaker).

In this situation, the party with ownership of a key resource may gain the ability to “hold up” its partner, demanding an unreasonably high price.

Until a forensic analysis or some other concrete evidence proves otherwise that conspiracy theory doesn't hold up for me--especially after hearing the final album versions on very good speakers.

Mostly it served to hold up Moth's potted herbs, and as a non-floor surface onto which she could toss articles of clothing or dried bits of things she hoped to use in potions some day.

The Republicans have similarly used their powers to hold up the appointment of administration nominees for diplomatic jobs whom they consider too conciliatory towards Mr Chavez and his friends.

When the team is kidnapped, the soldiers cut out the tongue of a local missionary as a way of silencing his prayers, and afterwards hold up the twitching bloody lump in glee.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Though he had a very well-tempered constitution, his hold upon life had lost its firmness.