How to Use hold true in a Sentence

hold true

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Definition of hold truenext
  • The same considerations for pregnancy will hold true for breastfeeding as well.
    — Alexandra Paetow Ms Rdn, Parents, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The rest, 52%, say the promise used to hold true but no longer does, up 9 points.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • If trends hold true, Ohio could be on the frontline once again.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But that doesn’t hold true for all segments, Krantz says.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • That high will hold true for the first several days of the workweek.
    — Henri Hollis, ajc, 17 July 2021
  • So wouldn’t that hold true for your running shoe size too?
    — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 12 Sep. 2023
  • If Bass was not a criminal, the same should hold true for her client.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In some set-ups, Cope’s Rule does indeed appear to hold true.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The same would hold true for determining third and fourth place.
    — Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • If those estimates hold true, this would be one of the busiest spring break ever.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • There are too many far left activists in the court for that expectation to hold true.
    — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Two-thirds believe the American Dream doesn’t hold true.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That will likely hold true this year, when four out of the five tracks are also ROTY nominees.
    — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Holter and Hohl both wholeheartedly believe in the restaurant’s ability to hold true to that.
    — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Ways of relating and presumptions that hold true on Twitter now seem true in real life.
    — WIRED, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Though this doesn’t hold true everywhere, and local ecology plays a role.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The inventory spikes in markets like Las Vegas suggest that may once again hold true.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • These same trends largely hold true even in urban Florida.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • 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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