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How to use hold-up in a sentence

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Keen frosts had slowly given way to warmer weather and after a fortnight's hold-up rugby football and hockey teams were able to play.
Since I was well back in the procession of creeping vehicles, it took me a while to figure out what the hold-up was.
Nine years and five months elapsed between the original hold-up and the appeal court verdict.
They said the hold-up was due to delays in calculating departmental budgets.
But the little hold-up might have something to do with the money needed for the project.
The only hold-up we encountered was waiting quite a while to get drawings through from the architects.
Caught in the middle of a hold-up at the store, Jack courageously disarms the gunman.
Some 100 retailers were contacted for the purpose of the survey and asked if they always made insurance claims following a hold-up or break-in.
A gang of robbers in Japan stole R2,7million in a bank hold-up in Fukuoka, then caught a bullet train.
Police have not ruled out a connection between these two raids and a hold-up at a post office last Monday.
I need only remind members that the hold-up of work on the Highway was because of a taniwha.
When there is a traffic jam or hold-up, do not jump the queue, as it would only add to the congestion and confusion.
Layovers, postponed flights, and other kinds of hold-up are an unavoidable part of life as a high-flying road warrior.
The latest hold-up involves a new office block for train operating companies, which will include facilities for train crews.
A man armed with a firearm and cutlass then stormed the house and announced a hold-up.
Suppose the government wants to steal your money in your bank account, does it need to hold-up your bank?
The four men, two of whom were armed, entered the building and announced a hold-up at around 10.30 pm, when the store was about to close, police said.
Police remained tight-lipped about the incident but according to reports, around 4 am, a man armed with a gun entered the restaurant and announced a hold-up.
One volunteer tells me the owner was shot during an Oxycontin hold-up.
But a lengthy hold-up over the signing of contracts could stall the launch until summer 2005, meaning it will not now be open for the money-spinning Christmas period.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I'm here to tell you that I've got evidence to prove that Ford was a rustler an' a hold-up.
The hold-up is severe, usually, and becomes in itself a thing to be managed.
And that's how the Padova family fell into playing the hold-up game.
A place better adapted for a hold-up could hardly be devised.
The only point was to find out where the hold-up left the lateral.
This unscheduled hold-up of the tour was taken in a philosophic spirit by His Royal Highness.
The victors are partitioned into four groups' leaders, pressers, hold-up and rear, derived from the in-running comments they were assigned.
On the night of February 1, 1932, Tim Haswell, a hold-up man, was shot during an attempted robbery by a citizen of Piedmont Heights.
He could borrow with a breezy bluffness which made the thing practically a hold-up.
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