Definitions

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  • adjective Impossible to hold.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ holdable

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Examples

  • His model is the grey, muddy, hard-eyed comrade who took the untakeable at Vimy Ridge, endured the unendurable in the Scheldt and held the unholdable at Kapyong.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • His model is the grey, muddy, hard-eyed comrade who took the untakeable at Vimy Ridge, endured the unendurable in the Scheldt and held the unholdable at Kapyong.

    Latest Articles Toronto Sun 2010

  • His model is the grey, muddy, hard-eyed comrade who took the untakeable at Vimy Ridge, endured the unendurable in the Scheldt and held the unholdable at Kapyong.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • His model is the grey, muddy, hard-eyed comrade who took the untakeable at Vimy Ridge, endured the unendurable in the Scheldt and held the unholdable at Kapyong.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • Your not going to like this, my boy is completely unholdable in a 3 ring gag, brilliant in NS universal bit (very simular to KK bit)

    unknown title 2009

  • Lizbeth guessed that Len knew this answer wasn’t adequate—but he had to supply some sort of order, some way of holding the unholdable in his mind.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Lizbeth guessed that Len knew this answer wasn’t adequate—but he had to supply some sort of order, some way of holding the unholdable in his mind.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

  • Lizbeth guessed that Len knew this answer wasn’t adequate—but he had to supply some sort of order, some way of holding the unholdable in his mind.

    The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

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