Hold and Shine

Hold

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

Shine and hold are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shine" instead a verb "Hold".

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Shine

Shine verb - To emit rays of light.

Hold and shine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hold" instead a verb "Shine".

Nearby Words: shining, shiny, shiner

How words are described

good good hold good shine
high high hold high shine
best best hold best shine
original original hold original shine
Other adjectives: true, simple, powerful, entire, big, huge, little, final, last.

Common collocations

fire hold fire shine fire
place hold place shine place
time hold time shine time
head hold head shine head
Other words: conversation, sword, times.

Both words in one sentence

  • Cue the Sun Naturally, the heroes retrieve the head and hold it aloft to the 'Nightwalker' just as the first rays shine across the hills...
    Source: Cue the Sun
  • Anime / Sacred Seven Intimate Healing: Variation in which Alma and Ruri need to hold hands in order to make a piece of stone shine so Oni-Gawara can be healed.
  • Things ranging from 'when you fall, you can keep on shooting with your pistol' to 'don't shine a light in a witch's eyes' to 'you can shut a door on zombies to hold them off a while'.
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