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How to use holder in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Holder means a thing that holds. Example: “Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.”

Examples of holder by meaning

nounA thing that holds.

  • Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.

nounA person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.

  • He's been an account holder with us since 2004.
  • In 2012, there were 28 living holders of the Victoria Cross or the George Cross.
  • A request for a nonreviewable ruling must be submitted by an issuer or holder.1996, United States. Internal Revenue Service, Internal Revenue Bulletin, page 47

More sentences with holder

  • A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society.From the entry monopoly
  • Proper behaviour is incumbent on all holders of positions of trust.From the entry incumbent
  • The utensil holder hooks onto the side of the dishrack.From the entry hook
  • Most people got away with Napster piracy, but a few people were sued for gigantic sums because copyright holders intended to make an example of them.From the entry make an example of
  • The stock market was down today amid profit taking, the share holders wanted to get some of the increase in stock price as cash while they could.From the entry profit taking
  • Regular acts of courage—bystanders defusing fights, subordinates standing up to abusive power holders—inspired awe.2023 January 3, Dacher Keltner, “The Quiet Profundity of Everyday Awe”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry common
  • If you thought beauty was in the eye of the beer holder, think again.2023 August 30, Linda Geddes, “‘Beer goggles’ study finds alcohol does not make people seem better looking”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
  • Sleek cylinder lights are perfect for a spathroom with their elegant elongated holder.2023 May 2, Isobel Green, “Lighting the way to fabulous style”, in Echo News, South Essex: Gannett. From the entry spathroom
  • "Like, Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder." He glanced in my direction.2018, Ellie Alexander, The Pint of No Return - A Mystery. From the entry beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
  • The leading tailor for the kontusz was Imperial-Royal Warrant holder C.2016, Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, “Birth and Childhood in Poland”, in A Chevalier from Poland: The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de…. From the entry kontusz
  • Duench whips out bowls with expandable tops, hangable onion holders, portion control plates.2009 March 2, Nancy J. White, “In tough times, folks turn to Tupperware”, in Toronto Star. From the entry hangable
  • This qualifies the holder of the sea card as an ordinary seaman .2005, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1051. From the entry sea card
  • She holds forth like a man and smokes myrrhy cigarettes through a rhino-horn holder.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 55. From the entry hold forth
  • Sterilized food is filled through the equipment into cups that have been denested into holders.1999, M. Shafiur Rahman, editor, Handbook of Food Preservation, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 142. From the entry denest
  • Both types of harp have a swiveling shade holder at the top.1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 104. From the entry harp
  • Debtors are bound both personally and hypothecarily towards their creditor, whereas holders are bound only hypothecarily.1981, McGill Law Journal, volume 27, page 726. From the entry hypothecarily
  • He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly.1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22. From the entry cigarette holder
  • Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder.1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22. From the entry cigarette holder
  • On Monday, Park, a green-card holder, self-deported to South Korea.2025 June 24, Juliana Kim, “Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.”, in NPR. From the entry self-deport
  • Customs earlier received a referral from a related organisation that suspected unsafe soother holders were being supplied on the market.2024 April 9, Hong Kong Government Press Release, “Archived copy”, in Hong Kong Customs alerts public on two unsafe soother holders…. From the entry soother
  • It is hard to pull off a quid pro quo if the holder of the quo doesn’t know about the quid.2020, John Yoo, Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, St. Martin’s Publishing…. From the entry quid
  • The rest of the necklace holders finally came in!2019 May 31, Abella Art & Design, tweet. From the entry custom
  • Finally, the rights of the usufruct holder are effective against both the owner and the world in general.2014, John G. Sprankling, “An International Definition of ‘Property’”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry usufruct
  • It was tar-black outside except for the flickering light of a torch stuck into a holder beside the door.2012, Kat Martin, Heart of Courage. From the entry tar-black
  • It's in an ANACS holder, graded MS64.2004 April 29, Larry Louks, “Walking Liberty Defect”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet), retrieved 03 Jan 2023. From the entry walker
  • Available at hardware stores and home improvement centers, lamp kits typically include a threaded rod, washers, and a harp holder.2004, Amy Tincher-Durik, Design on a Dime, page 103. From the entry harp holder
  • The more people an office holder can attract to one of these functions, the more authority they feel they can exercise.2003, Stan and Gail Long, Everybody Lobbies, page 119. From the entry office holder
  • This otherwise, means a misfavour to the power holders.2003, Joel S. G. R. Bhose, NGOs and Rural Development: Theory and Practice, page viii. From the entry misfavour
  • These three local power holders were recruited into the Communist camp at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War through coalition politics.1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 205. From the entry Yongcheng
  • The cukong collaborates with licence holders who are indigenous Indonesians.1993, Lee Khoon Choy, Diplomacy of a Tiny State, →ISBN, page 286. From the entry cukong
  • Fan Ling has produced no holder of senior official titles.1986, David Faure, “Villages and Village Clusters”, in The Structure of Chinese Rural Society: Lineage and Village in the Eastern New…. From the entry Sheung Shui
  • Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233. From the entry homemaker
  • "All I ask," she says, fitting the cigarette into a holder, "is that you don't call me Juli-et.1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry Juliet
  • Smokes incessantly Caporals, using a denicotinizing holder.1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 20. From the entry inhaler
  • Rather, after death, it lives on and is either paid off through estate assets or becomes the responsibility of a joint account holder or cosigner.2024 February 13, Holly D. Johnson, Credit Card Debt After Death. From the entry follow to the grave
  • The headline promise in the Liberal Democrat manifesto is to freeze rail fares for commuters and season ticket holders for the duration of a Parliament.2019 December 4, “Lib Dems promise fares freeze and low-emission technology”, in Rail, page 6. From the entry freeze

Meaning of holder

  1. noun A thing that holds.
  2. noun A person who temporarily or permanently possesses something.
  3. noun One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.

Full definition of holder

Questions about holder in a sentence

How do you use holder in a sentence?
Holder is used as a noun. For example: “Put your umbrella in the umbrella holder.”
What is a short sentence with holder?
“It's in an ANACS holder, graded MS64.”
What does holder mean?
Holder means a thing that holds.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: holder (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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