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19 example sentences for WITHHOLD, such as:
1. The dam can withhold the pressure of the water.
2. One of the things I abhor is the threat to withhold aid.
3. The state wants to withhold from a medical procedure that appears just awful.
4. The board has decided to withhold part of their grant money from certain students.
5. It was improper of the broker to withhold the information from the stock exchange.
2. One of the things I abhor is the threat to withhold aid.
3. The state wants to withhold from a medical procedure that appears just awful.
4. The board has decided to withhold part of their grant money from certain students.
5. It was improper of the broker to withhold the information from the stock exchange.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of WITHHOLD
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withhold
v. refuse to give; refrain from giving, granting, or permitting; deduct from employee's salary
Classic Sentence:
1 But here are your bonds; pay me differently; and he held the bonds towards Danglars, who seized them like a vulture extending its claws to withhold the food that is being wrested from its grasp.
2 Still I was but an agent, led on by an invisible and offended Deity, who chose not to withhold the fatal blow that I was destined to hurl.
3 For such particulars, stated on such authority, Elinor could not withhold her credit; nor was she disposed to it, for the circumstance was in perfect unison with what she had heard and seen herself.
4 He took the hand which I dared not withhold, and having given it a damp squeeze, referred to his pale-faced watch.
5 Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
6 Among his actual auditors, however, it merely gave him an additional claim to that respect which they never withhold from such as are believed to be the subjects of mental alienation.
7 A prince, therefore, should never stoop from his dignity, nor should he if he would have credit for any concession make it voluntarily, unless he be able or believe himself able to withhold it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV.
8 Such are the evils that befall when you withhold arms from your subjects; and this course is attended by the still greater disadvantage, that the closer an enemy presses you the weaker he finds you.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX.
9 Never would Edna Pontellier forget the shock with which she heard Madame Ratignolle relating to old Monsieur Farival the harrowing story of one of her accouchements, withholding no intimate detail.
10 My motive for withholding it from the coroner's inquiry is that a man of science shrinks from placing himself in the public position of seeming to indorse a popular superstition.
Example Sentence:
1 The board has decided to withhold part of their grant money from certain students.
2 We do not publish anonymous letters, although we may withhold a writer's identify if it is justified.
3 It was improper of the broker to withhold the information from the stock exchange.
4 The dam can withhold the pressure of the water.
5 The state wants to withhold from a medical procedure that appears just awful.
6 One of the things I abhor is the threat to withhold aid.
7 Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
8 During the trial, the prosecution was accused of withholding crucial evidence from the defence.
9 Your evasive answers convinced the judge that you were withholding important evidence.