How to Use put a hold on in a Sentence

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  • Judge Chutkan last month put a hold on the case while the appeals play out.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Did someone get cold feet and put a hold on the Amazon Fresh project?
    Walter Loeb, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The judge put a hold on the case in 2019 pending the outcome of the defamation trial in Montgomery.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The committee put a hold on the agreement for a second time.
    Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The war put a hold on the vast majority of those studies.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Oregon, along with Utah, are the first states to put a hold on their reopening process.
    oregonlive, 12 June 2020
  • This put a hold on launching the product but the queries from customers did not subside.
    Tommy Williams, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The Supreme Court put a hold on the ruling last year to allow the map to be used for the 2022 elections but did not rule on the merits of the case at that time.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
  • LaRose quickly appealed, and an appeals court put a hold on the ruling.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Some cities in and near the Inland Empire have already put a hold on new warehouses.
    Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Any member has the power to put a hold on any nominee for any reason.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Curry said officers put a hold on the package and went to the FedEx drop spot to collect it before the scammers did.
    Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Many volunteers put a hold on volunteering which was the right choice for them.
    courant.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • People can use the app to reserve a spot for someone who needs shelter for the night — an outreach worker can put a hold on a bed for an hour — or a meal.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • If the three-judge panel refuses to put a hold on the enforcement of the subpoena, Trump's lawyers will be forced to ask the Supreme Court to prolong the legal fight.
    Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The novel coronavirus pandemic put a hold on the hiring process last spring.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 27 Oct. 2020
  • But due to the referees’ lockout, the league put a hold on their implementation.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The city council at the time voted on a 4-3 margin to put a hold on implementing any new standalone sidewalks.
    Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The companies asked for a court order because of concerns that the AMCC did not have the authority to put a hold on the proceedings.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 23 June 2023
  • But that put a hold on Commerz Real’s strategy to increase its U.S. holdings.
    Peter Grant, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But the pandemic has put a hold on most of those newsworthy developments.
    New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021
  • In response to the increasing rate of new cases, Gov. Kate Brown put a hold on reopening procedures for seven days.
    Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
  • The attorney general could put a hold on the daily fines at the request of the local government while the monument is being restored.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When the pandemic put a hold on in-store shopping, one of the leading complaints about online shopping was the inability to try things on before spending the money.
    Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Its bankruptcy filing had put a hold on litigation against it.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The former president's legal team appealed the matter to a higher court and asked Chutkan to put a hold on her order while it is further litigated.
    Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Just one senator can put a hold on legislation to keep it from advancing quickly.
    Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Abbott has also put a hold on elective surgeries to make sure there is plenty of room for new cases in hospitals and medical centers.
    Fox News, 26 June 2020
  • However, a federal appeals court put a hold on Carney’s ruling late last year, allowing the law to go into effect while the challenge plays out.
    Peyton Sorosinski, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Biden unilaterally put a hold on any new tariffs on Chinese solar made in those four Southeast Asian nations.
    Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023

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