I came up the ladder carefully, holding the bucket in my right hand.
Are you holding that for your girlfriend, or are you a two-fisted drinker tonight?
Foppl stood holding a sjambok or cattle whip of giraffe hide, tapping the handle against his leg in a steady, syncopated figure.
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
Holding hands and forming a human daisy chain of peace, love and understanding is about as high on the list of priorities of today's fest-goer as remembering to pack a cummerbund.
Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
Frozen at the age he was when vampiredom was thrust upon him (in the great influenza epidemic of 1918), Edward is now eternally a younger man, while Jake’s 16 and holding.
Meaning of holding for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "holding" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.