How to Use holdover in a Sentence

holdover

noun

• He is the only holdover from their last championship team.
• This policy is a holdover from the previous administration.
• So – once again – Square Enix must release a holdover for fans.
  — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2022
• Quinerly is one of the few holdovers from that game on either team.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 18 Mar. 2023
• Jose Altuve is a longtime fan favorite, and the lone holdover from the dismal days of the early 2010s.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 15 Nov. 2022
• Region locking is just a crappy holdover from the DVD era.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
• Special assistant to the head coach James Schmeits is the lone holdover from Lansing's staff.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Nov. 2021
• The availability of one key holdover from last year is in question.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2022
• The sign on the door is not a holdover from some earlier stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2023
• All these pieces complement the bird on her head — a holdover from the original story.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• This is a holdover from the island's colonial-era past, prior to the purchase by the U.S. and its transition of power in 1917.
  — Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2022
• In fact, some of the deals listed below are holdovers from the retailer’s big Samsung 4K TV sale last week.
  — Rudie Obias, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
• Wilson would replace Shane Bowen, who is a holdover from coach Mike Vrbael’s staff.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• The holdover was welcome news to residents of Church Street East, who asked for a delay during the meeting.
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2022
• The few holdover players from last year have noticed the differences more than the many newcomers.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Running backs coach Shaun Aguano served as interim coach and remained on staff, the lone holdover from the Edwards regime.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
• Ortiz, Pedroia, and Lester formed the reliable holdover core.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2023
• But Victor Caratini, the team's holdover backup, is off to a great start himself.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2023
• Guard Lexie Brown, a key holdover from the end of the Fisher era, missed the majority of the season because of an illness.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Tight ends coach Stephen Field is the only holdover from last year’s assistant coaching staff.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• O’Leary expects the movies to perform well for weeks to come, noting there’s been a rise over the past several years in very strong holdover weekends.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 30 July 2023
• Most exchange gifts, though, on New Year’s Day itself, in a holdover from Soviet times.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2022
• The surrounding area is a Soviet holdover, gray, run-down, weedy, and working-class.
  — Curbed, 12 May 2022
• Breeds That Bury Bones While almost any breed or mixed breed can bury bones, some are more into this holdover habit than others.
  — Jennifer Nelson, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2023
• In some ways, AMC Networks is a holdover from an earlier media age.
  — Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• Elsewhere at the box office, three holdovers from Disney rounded out the top of North American charts.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 June 2023
• Jacob Zeno and Harrison Barker are the only holdovers from last year’s team.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 30 Aug. 2023
• Though the head coach is gone — and in USF’s case, so is the defensive coordinator — there is still a lot of holdover amidst a coaching change.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
• Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, is a holdover from the bad old days, a relic of the Republican Party that was.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Sep. 2022
• The program is a holdover from the Clean Ohio Fund that was created by a state bond initiative approved by voters in 2000.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 26 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024