Sentence example with the word 'holdover'

holdover

afterglow, candle ends, fag end, ins, new broom, orts, rags, remnant, rubbish, scraps, stump, waste

Definition n. an official who remains in office after his term

Last update: August 11, 2015


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The legislature, composed of the members from the western counties who had been elected on the 23rd of May and some of the holdover senators who had been elected in 1859, met at Wheeling on the 1st of July, filled the remainder of the state offices, organized a state government and elected two United States senators who were recognized at Washington.   [Please select]

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Count Ferdinand von Stroebel can have no successor--he's only a sort of holdover from the nineteenth century, and with him and his Emperor out of the way--what.   [Please select]

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