Sentence example with the word 'withhold'

withhold

abstain, conceal, detain, guard, hold out on, keep dark, keep snug, not tell, refrain, save up, straiten

Definition v. hold back

Last update: February 3, 2016


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Should the service agreement be suspended or disconnected for any reason then we reserve the right to withhold any payments due.   [verb]

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The right to give or withhold consent was not and is not extended to nationalists.   [verb]

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Yet she could not help admitting that it would be a sin against Barine's safety, perhaps her very life, to withhold her from this well-considered plan of escape.   [verb]

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"Unfortunately, even then I should be forced to withhold obedience; for consider, my royal mistress, there are but two great luminaries around which my dark life revolves."   [verb]

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What if the editor, at the last moment, dissatisfied with the start, should withhold the signal to drop the rope.   [verb]

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Balthasar could no longer withhold explanation.   [verb]

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In fact, he and Captain Runacles had sworn very heartily to sit indoors, pull down their blinds and withhold their countenances from the usurper.   [verb]

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