holding pattern

The screen lit, filled first with static and then a fractal holding pattern, but did not clear.

France will in many ways be in a political holding pattern until a new President is chosen.

It starts out slow, then picks up steam, then goes into a 150-page holding pattern about halfway through.

That apparently leaves the situation in a legal holding pattern.

In the living room most of the furnishings are in a more or less stable holding pattern.

It had resumed its high-speed holding pattern, ready to come in the moment it sensed anything wrong.

The shuttle lurched again, then settled into what seemed to be a circular holding pattern.

Group Blue and the four squadrons of attack ships beaded down for an orbital holding pattern.

The dialogue, low-key and seemingly locked into a kind of diplomatic holding pattern, may not seem like much.

"It should be a fair holding pattern," a Clinton aide said.