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How to use withhold in a sentence

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Following a meeting with threats to withhold council tax payments, the protest fizzled out in the face of an uncompromising council.
And since the governor plans to withhold our tax refund an extra month, we'll fix her wagon and file our return a month earlier.
As guardians of the wards over which they were appointed, the manitous could withhold from hunters permission or opportunity to kill.
Always remember that it is far easier to withhold a service or benefit than to take it away.
However, just after the end of exams, there was a proposal from AUS to withhold your exam marks as a bargaining chip in their negotiations.
They are secretive and withhold information not only from the rest of the world, but even from their own organizations.
Or do I withhold punishment or censure and in so doing undercut the teacher's authority?
The moral standing of our fellow creatures may be humble, but it is absolute and not something within our power to confer or withhold.
It should be noted that the landlord has no right to consent or withhold consent to the assignment itself.
Unless we have solid evidence that the penitent is deceiving us, we are clearly not to withhold it.
It's gutsy for the author to withhold the emotional satisfaction of closure in a drama fueled by such a fraught subject.
In the countryside peasants began organising to seize land and to withhold rent.
The decision was taken to withhold all advertising from the main broadsheet news pages of the paper.
I have a few quibbles with it but will withhold carping until all three chapters have appeared.
He discounted arguments that the secrecy would withhold news of the captures from other terrorists.
Churches withhold taxes from the paychecks of nonministerial employees because the government requires them to do so.
Members of dysfunctional families tend to either withhold or not verbalize their feelings, wants, likes, and dislikes with each other.
This is also true when they withhold, altogether, stories they know to be newsworthy and of public interest.
Do I withhold the trigger happy finger and watch the bear as unnoticeable, I hope, as any random bush?
Healthcare professionals should not withhold information out of concern that it will upset or unnerve a patient.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is no precedent for one in office to withhold his hand from profit and backsheesh.
The acceptance of these cessions is an acknowledgment of the right of the cherokees to make or withhold them.
He expedites orders for America and Africa, yet could not withhold the slightest of its privileges from the republic of Lucca.
In confidence, one may say many things to friends which he would prefer to withhold from an indiscriminating public.
No longer do they withhold knowledge of love, mating, and the renewal of life.
I can scarcely withhold myself from flying at the eyes of this mischief-maker.
In other sections, to withhold the sacraments for such a cause is unthought of.
Why should he take pains to persuade his mother to a consent which she had no right to withhold?
Attentive consideration of its provisions leads me to withhold it from resubmission to the Senate.
Granted that my father was misinformed, would it not have been more decent to withhold the letter and communicate with him in private?
I don't care to withhold this from you, kind and trusted Sir.
But it were shame that a king should know fear, and shame that belted knight should withhold his hand where be such as need succor.
Thou canst not withhold a tincture of lemon from the sweetest cup!
We cannot withhold our helping hand from anyone on the grounds that he is not a co-religionist.
How poor to withhold from you your books, your jewels, and your money!
On the other hand, the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
Forgive me for acknowledging that I determined to withhold the address as soon as I heard this.
He took the hand which I dared not withhold, and having given it a damp squeeze, referred to his pale-faced watch.
Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offerd good, why else set here?
He swore to her that he would go and he entreated her never again to withhold a single hour of the ideal happiness which she had promised him.
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