How to Use hold true in a Sentence
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The same considerations for pregnancy will hold true for breastfeeding as well.
—Alexandra Paetow Ms Rdn, Parents, 15 Apr. 2024
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The rest, 52%, say the promise used to hold true but no longer does, up 9 points.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
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If trends hold true, Ohio could be on the frontline once again.
—Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
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But that doesn’t hold true for all segments, Krantz says.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
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That high will hold true for the first several days of the workweek.
—Henri Hollis, ajc, 17 July 2021
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So wouldn’t that hold true for your running shoe size too?
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 12 Sep. 2023
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If Bass was not a criminal, the same should hold true for her client.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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In some set-ups, Cope’s Rule does indeed appear to hold true.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
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The same would hold true for determining third and fourth place.
—Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2022
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If those estimates hold true, this would be one of the busiest spring break ever.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
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Does the pea-sized application rule that applies to the face also hold true for the body?
—Elise Tabin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
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Auburn was able to generate a lot of pressure against UMass’ pass, but the same didn’t hold true for the running game.
—Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 2 Sep. 2023
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There are too many far left activists in the court for that expectation to hold true.
—Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
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The same will hold true for hospitals, restaurants, schools, and other big food users in 2024.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2021
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Two-thirds believe the American Dream doesn’t hold true.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
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That will likely hold true this year, when four out of the five tracks are also ROTY nominees.
—Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
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If patterns from last year hold true, this will be reduced to 3-4 percent under the new guidance.
—Edward Conroy, Forbes, 19 May 2022
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And even though so many of them wanted to interpret Star Wars in new ways, those core elements hold true.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 4 May 2023
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Should this hold true for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, viewers can start queueing the movie by early August 2023.
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 10 June 2023
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Dogs process familiar human words on the right side of the brain, according to a 2016 study published in Science, but the same concept might still hold true.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 July 2023
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Taylor says the same should hold true for other predators that hunt prey in large flocks or shoals or murmurations.
—Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2022
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Holter and Hohl both wholeheartedly believe in the restaurant’s ability to hold true to that.
—Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
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Whatever the studio machinations behind the scenes, one fact tends to hold true: Good movies tend to do better at the box office than bad ones.
—Time, 11 July 2023
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Ways of relating and presumptions that hold true on Twitter now seem true in real life.
—WIRED, 2 Dec. 2022
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Among other things, this means that much of their net worth is tied to the value of their public personas in ways that do not hold true for other billionaires.
—New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
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Though this doesn’t hold true everywhere, and local ecology plays a role.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024
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Follow best practices for résumés For AI and people alike, some of the age-old best practices for résumé writing still hold true.
—Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
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The inventory spikes in markets like Las Vegas suggest that may once again hold true.
—Lance Lambert, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
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These same trends largely hold true even in urban Florida.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
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If the dates announced in Sunday’s showcase hold true, Xbox wouldn’t need Activision’s games to meet its game-per-quarter release hopes.
—Gene Park, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
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